On Thursday 17 December 2020 06:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2020 06:03:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Another detail that might be useful, I kept many of the amanda-4.0 > releases when a fellow named Mitchel was working on it in 2012, > quitting when the last one didn't work. so I am going to make and > install about the next to the last one, working toward the older one > until I find one that works. When I do find one that works, I'll send > the original tar.gz to Stefan for inclusion in his github portal. Then > we can all play. > ~/amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4759$ ./configure --with-documentation --without-ipv6 but while configure is good, make fails quickly on this debian 9 install:
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../config -fno-strict-aliasing -D_GNU_SOURCE -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -MT localcharset.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/localcharset.Tpo -c localcharset.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/localcharset.o In file included from localcharset.c:28:0: ./stdio.h:456:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function) _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead"); ^ Makefile:1296: recipe for target 'localcharset.lo' failed make[4]: *** [localcharset.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/amanda/amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4759/gnulib' Makefile:1317: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/amanda/amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4759/gnulib' Makefile:1165: recipe for target 'all' failed make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/amanda/amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4759/gnulib' Makefile:1326: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/amanda/amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4759' Makefile:1251: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 so, next older one. or better yet, see if the first one will make on stretch. > > > So if someone wants to go the github way of improving it, that is > > > possible now. > > > > But that is not the whole thing. There is also backup.sh which is > > linked to flush.sh, detecting which it is run as, and > > flush-indices-configs which is a link to bak-indices-configs, also > > detecting which it is run as. But this error, supposedly caused by > > an amstatus data format change, effects it all. And I am about down > > to zero valid backups as this has existed for over 3 complete trips > > thru 60 vtapes now. I've changed both drives now thinking it was > > something going sour in the drives, but haven't found the problem. > > Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett > Cheers, Gene Heskett Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
