Re: Some Solaris issues

[Mark . Burgess]

On 25 Feb, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> Hello. I am trying to compile cfengine-2.0.5 on a Solaris 2.6 box. The
> build fails with the error:
> 
> cfenvd.o: In function `GatherLoadData':
> /home/src/akopps/cfengine-2.0.5/src/cfenvd.c:1058: undefined reference
> to `getloadavg'
> 
> The getloadavg man page is present on Solaris 7, 8, and 9 systems but
> not on Solaris 2.6 systems, so I assume this function is not provided
> with Solaris 2.6.
> 

I hope that the next version will correct this. For now, you
may comment out the call to this function.

> 
> Second problem, when running cfagent from cfengine-2.0.5pre with -v
> flag on a Solaris 9 system that's running a 64-bit kernel, I see the
> following output:
> 
> Additional hard class defined as: 32_bit
> Additional hard class defined as: sunos_5_9
> Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u
> Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u_5_9
> Additional hard class defined as: sparc
> Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u_5_9_Generic_112233_03
> GNU autoconf class from compile time: compiled_on_solaris2.6                  
>   
> 
> 
> Note that cfengine defines 32_bit class even though the system is
> running 64-bit kernel (/bin/isainfo -b returns 64). Does cfengine
> really have to be a compiled on a 64-bit version of Solaris to be able
> to figure out that it's running on a 64-bit system? I think it's an
> unnecessary restriction.
> 
> Of course, a quick cure to this problem would be to compile cfengine
> on a newer system type, although, I was hoping that given the backward
> binary compatibility record of Solaris, I could get away with using a
> single cfengine build on all Solaris versions.

The problem is how to detect the system nature in a generic way. It is
not really so easy...I am not very happy with these classes, but I
don't know how to fix the problem.

> 
> -akop
> 
> 
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