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

[Alex Bennee]

On 12 December 2011 16:52, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> 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

Oh they are installed. It just seems somewhere in the libtool magic it
drops the needed link lines.

12:32 root at sloy/x86_64 [~] >dpkg --status libwrap0-dev
Package: libwrap0-dev
Status: install ok installed

>
>
>> 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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