[rrd-developers] Compile failure due to libwrap on Ubuntu 11.10

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Alex,

Today Alex Bennee wrote:

> On 8 November 2011 09:22, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker at bennee.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just recently updated to 11.10 and thought I'd get upto date on
> > the trunk. It seems that there is some autotools breakage for libwrap.
> > I get the following compile error:
> >
> > <snip>
> > rrdcached-rrd_daemon.o: In function `connection_thread_main':
> > /export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src/rrd_daemon.c:2657:
> > undefined reference to `request_init'
> > /export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src/rrd_daemon.c:2658:
> > undefined reference to `sock_host'
> > /export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src/rrd_daemon.c:2659:
> > undefined reference to `hosts_access'
> > /export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src/rrd_daemon.c:2660:
> > undefined reference to `eval_client'
> > /export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src/rrd_daemon.c:2660:
> > undefined reference to `eval_client'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [rrdcached] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn/src'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/csrc/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool.git-svn'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I take it from the radio silence no one else has come across this
> problem? For now I'll just switch back to the stable branch without
> the libwrap support. However I suspect this will need fixing when 1.6
> is released so things can be packaged appropriately.

this looks as if you were missing tcp wrapper headers ... maybe
this does not get checked explicitly in configure ... can you try
installing them


> Is there a plan for a release of 1.6 at some point?

yes certainly ... it's just that the plan has no date yet :-)

cheers
tobi
>
>

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