[OpenIndiana-discuss] Error building check_swap en OpenIndiana

[Gordon Ross]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This is my first message to the list/group. I'm using GNU/Linux since
> 2000 and to expand my knowledge I decided to try OpenIndiana. I hope
> that with the help of the list/group I can take my first steps on that
> path.

Welcome to the fun!

> I'm trying to compile Nagios plugins (nagios-plugins-1.4.15.tar.gz) on
> OpenIndiana (build 151a), but the compilation does not generate the
> check_swap plugin.
>
> When I do a "make config", I get the error shown below in the
> config.log:
>
>
> - -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/include/sys/swap.h:51:2: #error "Cannot use swapctl in the large files compilation environment"
> configure:20249: checking whether swapctl is declared

This is a known problem:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1140

There's even a suggested fix, which you can use as a work-around.
I'm not sure what's holding up that fix.

Thanks,
Gordon