On 2012-02-09, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > El 08/02/12 20:09, Stuart Henderson escribis: >> On 2012-02-08, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to install NDOutils 1.5 on OpenBSD 5.0 amd64. I am having >>> a weird error during compilation. >> Not really weird, your include search path is wrong. Look at where >> gcc is searching and compare to where the files are. > Are we talking about this error? > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp//ccdrJBOI.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used > when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > /tmp//ccdrJBOI.o: could not read symbols: Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Oh I didn't get that far down; that error message from the linker is pretty clear though.. > I am not sure if this is something autogenerated by "configure" command > or it is something I should change...somewhere...or just a GCC issue > related with the platform (amd64). Yes you'll need to change the compiler flags to use -fPIC > Also, I research about this and it seems it is related with amd64 > only...other 64 bits platforms seems not have any issues like this. > >>> I would like to know if somebody on >>> this list has NDOutils 1.5 running with Nagios (from ports). >> No but icinga + idoutils is in ports/packages and should work ok. >> (the core program and "classic" aka nagios-style-but-nicer cgi web >> interface work well; idoutils has seen a bit less testing but should >> also work, the icinga-web port isn't quite finished yet but my >> uncommitted diffs are not far off). > Thanks for the tip about icinga + idoutils. I will test those too. Personally I'm not going to spend much time on nagios problems but am a bit more interested in any problems with running icinga on OpenBSD. btw, I find that upstream icinga developers are usually quite responsive too.
