[csw-users] Error buiding ruby gem sys-proctable (missing procfs.h)

[Mohamed Lrhazi]

Thanks a lot Ben.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Mohamed Lrhazi's message of Wed Apr 06 21:09:44 -0400 2011:
>
> Hi Mohamed,
>
>> [root at albany csw]$ pkgparam CSWruby18 VERSION
>> pkgparam: ERROR: unable to locate parameter information for "CSWruby18"
>
> Ok, first you should update to the current ruby packages.  Make sure
> you add CSWruby18-gcc4 to you can build with gcc4.  This handles the
> move away from the cswrbconfig tool.  These packages should have hit
> the mirrors a few days ago.
>
>> I had no 'make" in my path, so I set it:
>
> I may need to update the extconf.rb handling to use gmake and/or force
> /opt/csw/gnu into the path to make this nicer.  I run with that on my
> PATH by default, so I've missed this particular problem.
>
>> [root at albany csw]$ ch)`gem ': gem install  --no-rdoc --no-ri sys-proctable
>> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>> ERROR:  Error installing sys-proctable:
>>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>>
>> /opt/csw/bin/ruby extconf.rb
>> checking for rb_pid_t in ruby.h... yes
>> checking for procfs.h... no
>> creating Makefile
>>
>> make
>> /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc -I. -I/opt/csw/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9
>> -I/opt/csw/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9 -I. -DHAVE_TYPE_RB_PID_T
>> -I/opt/csw/include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -fPIC -O2 -pipe -mcpu=v8
>> -fPIC   -c proctable.c
>> proctable.c: In function 'proctable_ps':
>> proctable.c:224: error: 'as_file' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> proctable.c:224: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> proctable.c:224: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> make: *** [proctable.o] Error 1
>
> This is a bug in the gem:
>
> --snip--
> #ifdef HAVE_PROCFS_H
>   struct psinfo p;
>   char as_file[MAXPATHLEN];
> #else
>   struct prpsinfo p;
> #endif
>
> ...
>
>     strcpy(as_file, "/proc/");
>
> --snip--
>
> It's using a variable that may not be defined.  You should report this
> upstream.  The larger issue though is that have_header in extconf.rb
> isn't locating procps.h in /usr/include.  I'll see if I can track down
> either or both of a) why not, b) a work around.
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
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> Ben Walton
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