BeroFTPD 1.3.4 configure prob. (HPUX 11.00)

[James B. Byrne]

I am trying to build BeroFTPD 1.3.4 on HP-UX 11.00 and I am
getting the following error when running config.

Error received from configure script:

> checking how to determine wtmpx file... configure: error:
> Cannot find out how to locate wtmpx file. Contact
> beroft...@beroftpd.unix.eu.org.

I have modified the configure.in to test for wtmp in utmp.h
where the definition for wtmp resides. The diff patch for
configure.in is attached. You will need to have autoconf on
your system to generate the new configure file.

*** 1.3.4/configure.in Tue Mar 9 13:24:01 1999
--- hpux11/configure.in Tue Mar 9 13:24:22 1999
***************
*** 606,613 ****
AC_TRY_COMPILE([#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <utmpx.h>], [char *x=WTMP_FILENAME;],
WTMPX_FILE=WTMP_FILENAME)
if test "$WTMPX_FILE" = ""; then
! # some systems REALLY suck...
! AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find out how to locate
wtmpx file. Contact b
eroftp...@beroftpd.unix.eu.org.)
fi
fi
fi
--- 606,618 ----
AC_TRY_COMPILE([#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <utmpx.h>], [char *x=WTMP_FILENAME;],
WTMPX_FILE=WTMP_FILENAME)
if test "$WTMPX_FILE" = ""; then
! # This might be HPUX11 you know....
! AC_TRY_COMPILE([#define _GNU_SOURCE
! #include <utmp.h>], [char *x=WTMP_FILE;],
WTMPX_FILE=WTMP_FILE, WTMPX_FILE="")

! if test "$WTMPX_FILE" = ""; then
! # some systems REALLY suck...
! AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find out how to locate
wtmpx file. Contact
beroft...@beroftpd.unix.eu.org.)
! fi
fi
fi
fi

This produces a configure script that finds wtmp. However
when make is run an error in logwmtp.c occurs at lines 112
and 113. The error indicates that the e_termination and e_exit
structures are undefined. My knowledge of things unix is too
limited for me to fix this so I offer what I have discovered thus
far to others that may be able to help complete the puzzle for
me.

For what it is worth, the hpux 11.00 man pages on utmpx
caution against modifying the utmp and utmpx files directly
and direct programmers to use the pututline and pututxline
constructs instead. Both of these are notably absent from the
files in src.

Regards,
Jim

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