[Nagiosplug-help] Compile problem with Nagios-Plugins 1.4.2 onAIX

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jacob Laack wrote:
> I did that and I get:
> gcc: `-b' must come at the start of the command line
> 

So put it at the start of the command line then...

> Here are the differences between 1.4 and 1.4.2:
> 
> # pwd
> /usr/local/nagios-plugins-1.4/plugins
> # rm check_swap
> # check_swap_LDFLAGS=-bloadmap make check_swap

.. and you forgot '-lmath', and you didn't edit the Makefile, you passed 
it from command-line (which I'm not sure AIX Make handles properly) ...

> gcc  -g -O2  -L. -o check_swap -bloadmap check_swap.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a popen.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv

... meaning you should run

gcc -bloadmap -bnoquiet -L. check_swap.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a 
../lib/libcoreutils.a popen.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv -lmath


> gcc: `-b' must come at the start of the command line
> make: *** [check_swap] Error 1
> # make check_swap
> gcc  -g -O2  -L. -o check_swap  check_swap.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a popen.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv
> # ls check_swap
> check_swap
> # cd ../../nagios-plugins-1.4.2/plugins
> # rm check_swap
> rm: check_swap: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
> # check_swap_LDFLAGS=-bloadmap make check_swap
> gcc  -g -O2  -L. -o check_swap -bloadmap check_swap.o  utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a popen.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv
> gcc: `-b' must come at the start of the command line
> make: *** [check_swap] Error 1
> # make check_swap
> gcc  -g -O2  -L. -o check_swap  check_swap.o  utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a popen.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .floor
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
> collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> make: *** [check_swap] Error 1
> 
> I'm guessing there's bug in check_swap.c or in the makefile for that plugin.
> 

Could be, except that it builds just fine on just about all other unix 
systems. More likely there's either a bug in your linker, or you have 
non-standard libraries installed.

OTOH, you haven't, so far, tried a single thing I suggested, but rather 
a subset of it or in a manner different from what I asked you to do. If 
you want to try something different, then fine, but don't ask me why it 
doesn't work when you do, and don't ask me to provide more things to try 
that you can ignore.

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