Re: Amanda client on SCO Openserver

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Kenneth Berry wrote:
> 1. Is SCO Openserver 5.0.7 a supported OS?  I can find very little
> discussion on the Internet.

If you didn't get a warning beginning with
  *****
  This machine, target type XXXX, is not known
  to be fully supported by this configure script.  If the
  ...
when you configured, then someone, somewhere, has once compiled Amanda
on SCO Openserver.

> 2.  If it is not supported will it work anyway?

Probably, but it may take some tweaking..

> 3. Any advice on configuration options?

I've not touched a SCO machine, so I can't help you there.

> My configuration...make fails with
> 
> Making all in gnulib
> make[1]: Entering directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> make  all-am
> make[2]: Entering directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -W -Wparentheses
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wformat
> -Wsign-compare -Wno-error -D_GNU_SOURCE        -o libgnu.la   lock.lo
> asnprintf.lo printf-args.lo printf-parse.lo vasnprintf.lo -lm -lreadline
> -ltermcap -lsocket -lnsl -lresolv -lintl      -lsocket
> false
> cru .libs/libgnu.a .libs/lock.o .libs/asnprintf.o .libs/printf-args.o 
> .libs/printf-parse.o .libs/vasnprintf.o
> make[2]: *** [libgnu.la] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I'm not even sure how to interpret that.  However, the Makefile in that
directory (gnulib) is actually not written by us -- gnulib is a set of
low-level utilities provided to make cross-platform compatibility
easier, and pretty much comes with everything, including a Makefile.

Unless a SCO user speaks up here (come out, come out, lurkers!), I think
your best bet is to look for general advice on compiling from source,
particularly relating to gnulib.

Sorry I can't be more help..

Dustin

-- 
        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/