Re: [Bulk] Re: Help on building MONIT on Solaris x86-64

[Nestor Urquiza]

http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/04/installing-monit-in-solaris-10.html



On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Kevin Chadwick <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:07:25 +0200
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>>
>>> Otherwise to have a working binary using the right libraries you are
>>> going to have to rebuild on 4.8 now. 4.9 in a few weeks and then 5.0 in
>>> 6 months.
>>
>> I don't believe this is correct. The Monit binary link _dynamic_ with 
>> systems libraries only [1]. That is: you should be able to use the same 
>> monit binary on all 4.x versions from at least 4.7 without having to rebuild 
>> or install older libraries. If you have prof that there is a library version 
>> problem we would be very interested to know about this.
>>
>> [1]  OpenSSL is static linked into the Monit binary to avoid depending on a 
>> certain OpenSSL version or that OpenSSL is installed on the system.
>
> I don't think it has anything to do with openssl. On execution of 5.2.5
> on 4.8 i386 I get.
>
> can't load library libc.so.51.0
>
> After a few tries I get
>
> can't load library libpthread.so.11.1
>
> After a few manually attempted executions it goes back to libc.
>
> The current libraries on 4.8 stable are
>
> libc.so.56.0
> libpthread.so.12.1
>
> p.s. I have rediffed the patches from the openbsd ports tree for monit4
> to work with 5.2.3 and they still apply to 5.2.5, only simple changes
> but are you interested in or seen them.
>
> "http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/monit/patches/";
>
> Thanks,
> Kc
>
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