[Queue-developers] Queue on Solaris 8: solutions and problems

[Henry T. <cc...@uc...>]

Hi all,

I've succeeded in installing and running queue-1.30.1 on a Solaris 8
system (using the native Sun cc compiler), and thought it would be useful
to share the fixes I found necessary. I haven't yet been able to get
queue-1.40.1beta to compile.

1) The main problem with the cc compile on Solaris is the fact that the
   compiler flag -Wp,-MD, doesn't work properly. This flag appears in the
   Makefile template Makefile.in, e.g.:

          $(COMPILE) -Wp,-MD,.deps/$(*F).pp -c $<

   The -Wp part says "pass the following option through to the
   pre-processor"... the subsequent part -MD,.<filename> means "generate
   a list of the make dependencies of this source file, placing it in
   <filename>".

   Unfortunately, the Solaris form of this option doesn't seem to work
   in the same way. The only way that I've found to generate these
   dependencies is to use the COMPILER option -xM, which runs the
   pre-processor ONLY, sending the dependencies to standard output.

   This means that the single line above needs to be replaced with TWO
   lines, one to generate the dependencies, and one to do the compilation,
   e.g.:

          $(COMPILE) -xM $<  > .deps/$(*F).pp
          $(COMPILE) -c $<

   The diff file for Makefile.in, included below, makes the changes in the
   four places necessary.

2) Also in the Makefile, there is a line:

          cp doc/queue.man doc/queue.1

   This is trying to create a file doc/queue.1 in the queue-1.30.1, which
   is in my user area... since the make is run as root, this fails trying
   to write to the user area... I notice that Linux seems to let root write
   into a user area, regardless of permissions... Solaris does not. I resolved
   this by performing the copy separately (under my user account), and deleting
   this line from the makefile. The attached diff for Makefile.in also does this
   job.

=======start of Makefile.in diff========
416c416,417
< 	$(COMPILE) -Wp,-MD,.deps/$(*F).pp -c $<
---
> 	$(COMPILE) -xM $<  > .deps/$(*F).pp
> 	$(COMPILE) -c $<
425c426,427
< 	$(LTCOMPILE) -Wp,-MD,.deps/$(*F).pp -c $<
---
> 	$(LTCOMPILE) -xM $< > .deps/$(*F).pp
> 	$(LTCOMPILE) -c $<
435c437,438
< 	$(CXXCOMPILE) -Wp,-MD,.deps/$(*F).pp -c $<
---
> 	$(CXXCOMPILE) -xM $< > .deps/$(*F).pp
> 	$(CXXCOMPILE) -c $<
444c447,448
< 	$(LTCXXCOMPILE) -Wp,-MD,.deps/$(*F).pp -c $<
---
> 	$(LTCXXCOMPILE) -xMD $< > .deps/$(*F).pp
> 	$(LTCXXCOMPILE) -c $<
573d576
< 	cp doc/queue.man doc/queue.1
=======end of Makefile.in diff========

   I haven't investigated how to integrate these changes more fully into queue
   (or even if this is possible).

3) In queued.c, there is a string which is split over two lines: cc doesn't accept
   this. I note that this is fixed in queue-1.40.1beta, but here is my fix for
   version 1.30.1:

=======start of queued.c diff========
4713,4714c4713,4714
< 	merror1("QueueD: Received invalid cookie. In NO_ROOT, COOKIEFILE must be
< the same on all machines! Received cookie: %s\n",tmpcookie); goto abort;
---
> 	merror1("QueueD: Received invalid cookie. In NO_ROOT, COOKIEFILE must be \
>         the same on all machines! Received cookie: %s\n",tmpcookie); goto abort;
=======end of queued.c diff========

4) This isn't really an error, but I found it useful to redirect the "system"
   mail generated by queue to somewhere other than root... in our networked
   environment this is not a specific enough destination. During investigations,
   I re-directed this mail to my own account (ccaahot), with the following fix
   to configure:

=======start of configure diff========
4234c4234,4235
< MIUSER=\"${OWNER}\"
---
> # MIUSER=\"${OWNER}\"
> MIUSER=\"ccaahot\"
=======end of configure diff========

With these fixes, queue seems to work OK on my Solaris 8 machine (a SunBlade 100),
though I haven't done exhaustive tests yet.

I hope this info is of use to someone

cheers

Henry
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