[Linux-HA] Solaris 10 x86 Compile Fails

[David Lee]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Paul Roberts wrote:

> I'm trying to build Heartbeat on S10 x86 and I'm getting a failure
> when I try to build it from source.  Can anyone help?
>
> lex   `test -f conf_lex.l || echo './'`conf_lex.l
> "conf_lex.l":line 80: Error: missing translation value
> gmake[2]: *** [conf_lex.c] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/pr199865/Heartbeat/
> heartbeat-2.1.3/telecom/recoverymgrd'

Firstly, I spot "Paul Roberts <P.Roberts at Sun.COM>".

How good it is to have someone from inside Sun taking an interest in
heartbeat!  (For a few years, I've been trying to maintain heartbeat
portability to include Sun, so it's nice to have company...)

Anyway, I haven't looked in depth at your problem. But it's worth bearing
in mind that heartbeat sprang from a GNU/Linux environment and the vast
majority of its real use in such environment.

Now turning to my own Solaris build, I see that "configure" ends up
finding my local GNU "flex", rather than the Sun "lex".  (I would expect
that: configure prefers GNU variants over the manufacturer's.)

So I would guess that if I were to force my build to use "lex", it, too,
would have the same problem as yours.

I'm no "lex" expert at all.  (Although, off-topic, it just so happens that
I currently have open with Sun a Solaris-9/lex bug for which I'm expecting
a T-patch any day now...please...)

I guess that "telecom/recoverymgrd/conf_lex.l" contains a flex-ism;
something that works in GNU/flex but not in manufacturer "lex".  If you
could investigate that, and try to provide a fix (that must, of course,
continue to work in "flex") then I (or other developers here) would be
happy to try to incorporate that into future releases.

Welcome aboard, and best wishes.

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