On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 07:34 +1100, Ken McDonell wrote:
> Would appear to be yet another example of mail not making it onto the
> pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. Can someone who can, please fix this?
I need a bit more background to fix a mysterious mail problem.
But it note as of today oss is now grey listing incoming mail.
Which means there will delay before things show up on the list.
I'm not fond of the idea of a delay but at the point most spam filtering
seems to leaning negative side of signal vs noise.
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html
>
> Max, could you please post src/pmdas/aix/common.h to the list (if it
> works) and Richard asap?
>
> Also add common.h to LSRCFILES in src/pmdas/aix/GNUmakefile.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:26 -0700, Passmore, Richard (Mission Systems)
> wrote:
> > Ken - Thanks for the quick reply. Kirk Kern from IBM is helping us out
> > with this problem and he has successfully compiled everything for AIX
> > except for the PDMA portion. He said in an internal email that
> > "common.h" is missing from the distribution and he has sent that in to
> > the mailing list. I am going to pass this information and your new
> > email address to him.
> >
> > Thanks much!
> >
> > Rich Passmore
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken McDonell [mailto:kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:47 PM
> > To: Passmore, Richard (Mission Systems)
> > Cc: pcp-info@xxxxxxx; makc@xxxxxxx; pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: FW: Performance Co-Pilot v2.5.0
> >
> > G'day Richard.
> >
> > I don't know what happened to your earlier mailing attempts, but I've
> > Cc'd my reply in the hope that this reaches the wider PCP community.
> >
> > Up until the time I left SGI, the PCP source was compiling cleanly for
> > both AIX 5.2 and Solaris 8 (the only variants of those platforms I had
> > access to), however I don't have information to identify the compiler
> > tool chain that was being used.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, there are no changes to libpcp/src/auxconnect.c
> > that have been made recently, so I doubt this is a regression from 2.4
> > to 2.5.
> >
> > My guess is that something in your build environment is being picky
> > about errno (perhaps as a result of threading support?) ... PCP is not
> > multithreaded, so do you have the option of compiling for a single
> > threaded execution mode?
> >
> > Other than that, I'd guess the errno (and h_errno) stuff is going to
> > need some work to parameterize it into a format the will work across
> > platforms.
> >
> > I recall seeing some mention of other patches for PCP for other
> > platforms, e.g. http://oss.sgi.com/archives/pcp/2005-11/msg00005.html
> > so maybe the work has already been done.
> >
> > Failing that, if you could provide me with login access to a system
> > where the problems are being seen I could investigate (as I did much of
> > the original cross-platform porting) ... I don't have access to any
> > Solaris or AIX systems in my new job.
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:28 -0700, Passmore, Richard (Mission Systems)
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ______________________________________________
> > > From: Passmore, Richard (Mission Systems)
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:01 PM
> > > To: 'kenmcd@xxxxxxx'
> > > Subject: Performance Co-Pilot v2.5.0
> > >
> > > Hello, my name is Rich Passmore. I previously sent the text below to
> > > the pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing group, but never saw a reply. It was
> > > suggested that I email you directly concerning a compilation problem
> > > for PcPv2.5.0 on AIX from a former SGI employee who now works for IBM.
> > >
> > > Keeping this brief, here is what I am seeing. I have xlc/c++ v7.0
> > > installed on an IBM OpenPower pSeries 520 and I am attempting to
> > > compile PcP for AIX v5.3 ML2. I am using the following command line
> > > entry to configure/compile, "gmake CC=xlC CCC=xlC CPP=cpp". With this
> >
> > > and various other attempts, I keep coming back to the following
> > > errors:
> > >
> > > "auxconnect.c", line 101.25: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text 'int'
> > > encountered.
> > > "auxconnect.c", line 101.25: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ')'
> > > encountered.
> > > "auxconnect.c", line 101.32: 1506-276 (S) Syntax error: possible
> > > missing ')'?
> > > gmake[3]: *** [auxconnect.o] Error 1
> > > gmake[2]: *** [default] Error 2
> > > gmake[1]: *** [default_pcp] Error 2
> > > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/sysadmin/pkgs/pcp-2.5.0/src'
> > > gmake: *** [default_pcp] Error 2
> > >
> > > Interestingly enough, if I comment out lines 100-101 in auxconnect.c,
> > > the compiler goes right past this and continues to build until other
> > > compiler issues come up.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rich Passmore
> > > Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
> > > (720)744-7387 Work
> > > 877-237-4820 Pager
> > >
> > >
> > > Text below previously emailed to the pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing group
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > I am the system administrator for a heterogenous environment of
> > > approx. thirty machines running IRIX 6.5.x, Redhat Enterprise 3&4, AIX
> >
> > > 5.3, and Solaris 9.
> > >
> > > We are attempting to collect metrics between machines on three
> > > different subnets in a 1 gigabit network environment. We have a
> > > licensed copy of PCP for our IRIX platform and would like to compile
> > > PCP for our other platforms. To date I have successfully compiled
> > > version 2.4.0 for Linux, IRIX, and Solaris, however the Solaris
> > > version core dumps everytime we attempt to run it. I downloaded the
> > > v2.5.0-1 source and ran into numerous issues trying to compile for
> > > Solaris. I have been unsuccessful in compiling ANY version of PCP on
> > > AIX 5.3.
> > >
> > > Has anyone successfully compiled PCP for Solaris and/or AIX and what
> > > did you have to do? Is there a specific environment setup that I
> > > need, such as setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
> > >
> > > On both our Solaris and AIX machines I have installed the standard GNU
> >
> > > suite of tools and still run into problems attempting to build.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > - Rich
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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