[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1891183 ] 1.4.11 doesn't compile (2x)

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Bugs item #1891183, was opened at 2008-02-11 15:56
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Submitted By: Henry78 (henry78)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 1.4.11 doesn't compile (2x)

Initial Comment:
I got this complie error, during 'makeing' nagios-plugins-1.4.11 on RHEL4:

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basename.c: In function `char* base_name(const char*)':
basename.c:95: error: invalid conversion from `void*' to `char*'
make[3]: *** [basename.o] Error 1
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'cause i didn't need it, i removed the part for rewriting windows(?) paths from basename.c.

distclean, configure, make and a similar error occured:

----------8<----------
dirname.c: In function `char* dir_name(const char*)':
dirname.c:79: error: invalid conversion from `void*' to `char*'
make[3]: *** [dirname.o] Error 1
---------->8----------

It's a rewrite of a filename/path there too, but I'm not sure why it throws an Error. The corresponding line 79 from dirname.c:
----------8<----------
  char *dir = xmalloc (length + append_dot + 1);
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>Comment By: Holger Weiss (hweiss)
Date: 2008-02-11 22:21

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The new error again looks like your GCC installation is somehow borked. 
GCC 3.4.5 should be just fine, but an upgrade is probably a good idea, just
in order to replace the old stuff.  I'd be interested in whether that fixes
it.

By the way, my example doesn't use K&R style, it's plain ANSI C.  The
thing your compiler refused to do (in the plugins code and in my example)
was an implicit conversion of a pointer to void to a pointer to char, which
is just fine in C (both C89 and C99), but is not allowed in C++ (where an
explicit cast would be required to convert a pointer to void).  "-x c"
forces gcc and g++ to expect C input.  Without "-x", gcc chooses the
language based on the file name suffix (see "man gcc"), while g++ expects
C++ unless you use "-x" (which is how your gcc behaves for some reason).

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Comment By: Henry78 (henry78)
Date: 2008-02-11 18:43

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I got a 'C-Guru' to my desk for some minutes. He explained that your
test.c code is valid K&R C, but I need to set the gcc-switch "-x c" to
compile it. And ist complied fine. Even a hello-world-like line was printed
after adding that to test.c
The pity is: C-Guru is gone, and the compilation fails with other errors:

-----8<-----
gcc -x c -o check_apt check_apt.o utils.o runcmd.o 
-L/root/nagios/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl
/libgnu.a
check_apt.o:1: error: stray '\127' in program
----->8-----

I'll update to the latest available gcc for RHEL4 (that's 3.4.6), and
report back.

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Comment By: Holger Weiss (hweiss)
Date: 2008-02-11 17:14

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Then there's something seriously broken with your gcc installation, my
example is perfectly valid C code.

Maybe try to re-install your GCC package(s)?  Other than that, I have no
idea, sorry.

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Comment By: Henry78 (henry78)
Date: 2008-02-11 17:05

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No, the test.c doesn't complile. It throws an error:

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test.c:2: error: invalid conversion from `void*' to `char*'
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It works if I (double)quote the 'v'.

gcc -v
gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)

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Comment By: Holger Weiss (hweiss)
Date: 2008-02-11 16:57

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Odd.  Does compiling the following code using "gcc -o test test.c" work?

/* test.c */
int main(void) { void *v; char *c = v; return 0; }

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Comment By: Henry78 (henry78)
Date: 2008-02-11 16:12

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----------8<----------
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../intl   -g -O2 -MT dirname.o -MD
-MP -MF ".deps/dirname.Tpo" -c -o dirname.o dirname.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/dirname.Tpo" ".deps/dirname.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/dirname.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
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That's the corresponding compiler command line. I'm pretty sure it uses
gcc...

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Comment By: Holger Weiss (hweiss)
Date: 2008-02-11 16:07

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You didn't post the compiler command line which threw the error, but it
seems as if you're using g++ instead of gcc for some reason.  Is the
environment variable CC set to "g++" or something like that?

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