Can't compile plugins - undefined reference to `getloadavg'

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 06:59, Voon, Ton wrote:
> David,

Did you try the release rather than beta 3?

--
Karl

> Couple of things to try:
> - can you send the configure output and the config.log file
> - what version of gcc?
> - create a little c file called t.c:
> char getloadavg();
> 
> int main() {
> getloadavg()
> ; return 0; }
> 
> and run:
> gcc -c t.c
> gcc t.o lib/libnagiosplug.a
> 
> Do you still get the getloadavg missing?
> - try: "gcc t.o lib/getloadavg.o". If this works, it suggests the ar file is
> not being created correctly
> - download GNU fileutils package which contains getloadavg:
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz. With their compiled
> version of getloadavg.o, can gcc work against that?
> 
> Ton
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	David Gurr [SMTP:davidgu at yahoo.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> > To:	nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject:	[Nagios-users] Can't compile plugins - undefined reference
> > to `getloadavg'
> > 
> > I'm trying to install the plugins on an old Caldera
> > OpenLinux 2.3 system, with a view to also installing
> > nrpe.
> > 
> > I've unpacked the nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta3 tarball,
> > and  successfully run configure. When I do "make all",
> > it fails on building check_load with the following
> > error:
> > 
> > gcc  -g -O2 -L. -o check_load  check_load.o utils.o
> > ../lib/libnagiosplug.a popen.o -lutil
> > check_load.o: In function `main':
> > /tmp/nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta3/plugins/check_load.c:80:
> > undefined reference to `getloadavg'
> > make[1]: *** [check_load] Error 1
> > 
> > Earlier, the libnagiosplug.a library seemed to get
> > built OK:
> > 
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I.    -g -O2 -c getopt.c
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I.    -g -O2 -c getopt1.c
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins -I../plugins
> > -I.    -g -O2 -c getloadavg.c
> > rm -f libnagiosplug.a
> > ar cru libnagiosplug.a getopt.o getopt1.o getloadavg.o
> > ranlib libnagiosplug.a
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thx
> > 
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