Xymon 4.3.20-RC1 Available

On Tue, May 12, 2015 11:40 am, John Thurston wrote:

On 5/12/2015 6:20 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:

I've posted Release Candidate 1 for Xymon 4.3.20, . . .
Please take a pounding on it and let me know if you notice any problems
--
especially on non-Linux systems. If all goes according to plan, I'll be
releasing the final 4.3.20 later on this week.

On Solaris 10, xymonnet/c-ares-shim.sh is trying to pass "-e" options to
grep and failing during the make.

mv c-ares-1.10.0 c-ares
# Must touch "configure", or it will trigger a rebuild because it is
older than the tar.gz file.
touch c-ares/configure
(cd c-ares && ../c-ares-shim.sh ./configure --disable-shared)
grep: illegal option -- e
grep: illegal option -- I
grep: illegal option -- e
grep: illegal option -- D
grep: illegal option -- e
grep: illegal option -- L
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
../c-ares-shim.sh: test: argument expected
gmake[1]: *** [c-ares/Makefile] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xymon/xymon-4.3.20-rc1/xymonnet'
gmake: *** [xymonnet-build] Error 2

/usr/bin/grep doesn't handle -e
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep does

c-ares-shim.sh is just calling 'grep'. Isn't there something in the
process which defines $GREP and $EGREP to point to an appropriate
version of grep?

Unfortunately not -- configure hadn't had a need for it it seems, and
we're not within autoconf currently.

Can you try this quick patch to it? Although uglier, I don't think there's
a need for a single (e)grep there.


-jc