nrpe on IRIX

[Dan Rich]

Dan Rich said:
> Has anyone successfully built and installed nrpe on IRIX?  I have it compiling
> fine, but something odd is going on in the socket code.  The connection never
> succeeds and I find the following in my syslog:

Ok, if anyone else ever tries this, the problem is that inet_ntoa() is broken
on IRIX with gcc.  The solution is the patch below.  You should also remove
the -lnsl -lsocket from src/Makefile, I didn't have time to figure out how to
get configure to do this.

--- nrpe.c.orig Fri May  9 10:24:29 2003
+++ nrpe.c      Fri May  9 10:20:01 2003
@@ -23,6 +23,18 @@
 #include "nrpe.h"
 #include "utils.h"

+#ifdef sgi
+ char *
+  _gcc_workaround_inet_ntoa( struct in_addr a ) {
+     static char buf[64];
+     unsigned char *pc = (unsigned char *)&a;
+     snprintf(buf, 64,  "%d.%d.%d.%d",  pc[0], pc[1], pc[2], pc[3]);
+     return buf;
+  }
+
+  #define inet_ntoa _gcc_workaround_inet_ntoa
+#endif
+
 #define DEFAULT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT        60                      /* default
timeout for execution of plugins */
 #define MAXFD                   64



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