Re: [exim] eximon 4.93 fails on startup

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Author: Olaf Hopp
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] eximon 4.93 fails on startup
Hey come on,

nobody is using eximon ?!

CU, Olaf


On 12/11/19 11:40 AM, Olaf Hopp via Exim-users wrote:
> One further remark:
>
> on my CentOS 6.10 system (gcc (GCC) 4.4.7) with the same Makefile eximon starts up fine
> and I can see it working, but after 1 or 2 hours it crashes with the same error message
>
> Exim Monitor version 2.06 (compiled 10-Dec-2019 17:23:02) initializing
> .eximon.bin: string.c:1274: string_vformat_trc: Assertion `!(flags & (1UL << (0)))' failed.
>
>
> Yours, Olaf
>
> On 12/11/19 10:16 AM, Olaf Hopp via Exim-users wrote:
>> Dear collegues,
>>
>> my eximon under 4.93 crashes right after startup:
>>
>> # eximon
>> Exim Monitor version 2.06 (compiled 10-Dec-2019 17:23:02) initializing
>> .eximon.bin: string.c:1274: string_vformat_trc: Assertion `!(flags & (1UL << (0)))' failed.
>>
>> This is a CentOS 7.7 actual Patchlevel
>> exim is compiled by myself.
>> gcc is out of the distribution
>> gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)
>>
>>
>> Further Details:
>> since a long time I had to tweak my Locale/Makefile:
>> Until 4.92.x I had just
>> EXTRALIBS= -lpam -lldap -llber -L/usr/X11R6/lib64
>> at the beginning of Local/Makefile and that fails with 4.93 during "make"
>>
>> [...]
>> cc -DMACRO_PREDEF macro_predef.c
>> macro_predef.c: In function ‘options_from_list’:
>> macro_predef.c:83:1: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
>>   for (int i = 0; i < nopt; i++)  if (*(s = US opts[i].name) && *s != '*')
>>   ^
>> macro_predef.c:83:1: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code
>> make[1]: *** [macro_predef.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/exim/src/exim-4.93/build-Linux-x86_64'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> So I tried
>> CFLAGS += -std=c99
>> in the Local/Makefile, but this failed also a little bit further down:
>>
>> [...]
>> cc exim_monitor/em_StripChart.c
>> ../exim_monitor/em_StripChart.c: In function ‘MoveChart’:
>> ../exim_monitor/em_StripChart.c:388:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘bcopy’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>       bcopy((char *)(w->strip_chart.valuedata + next - j),
>>       ^
>> cc exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c
>> In file included from /usr/include/X11/IntrinsicP.h:51:0,
>>                   from ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c:60:
>> ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c: In function ‘AddSearchChildren’:
>> ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c:367:43: error: ‘caddr_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>>     XtSetArg(args[num_args], XtNradioData, (caddr_t) XawsdLeft + R_OFFSET);
>>                                             ^
>> ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c:367:43: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>> ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c:367:52: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘XawsdLeft’
>>     XtSetArg(args[num_args], XtNradioData, (caddr_t) XawsdLeft + R_OFFSET);
>>                                                      ^
>> ../exim_monitor/em_TextPop.c:379:52: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘XawsdRight’
>>     XtSetArg(args[num_args], XtNradioData, (caddr_t) XawsdRight + R_OFFSET);
>>                                                      ^
>> make[1]: *** [em_TextPop.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/exim/src/exim-4.93/build-Linux-x86_64'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>>
>>
>> So I tried
>> CFLAGS += -std=gnu99
>> with this, exim and eximon where build with just one warning
>>
>> cc exim_monitor/em_main.c
>> ../exim_monitor/em_main.c: In function ‘numlock_modifiers’:
>> ../exim_monitor/em_main.c:576:5: warning: ‘XKeycodeToKeysym’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1687) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>>       if (XKeycodeToKeysym(display, m->modifiermap [i*m->max_keypermod + j], 0)
>>
>> exim 4.93 is up and running and (seems to be) OK
>> Just the eximon crashes when starting it.
>>
>> Regards, Olaf
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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