[Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Apr 24 14:45:20 CEST 2003
Take a look at tools/setup for initializing a cvs version.
- the INSTALL doc is providing too much and not enough information.
-sg
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Earl C. Ruby III wrote:
> I checked out the latest nagiosplug source from the SourceForge CVS repository
> and got this:
>
> # aclocal -I lib
> # autoconf
> # autoheader
> autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
> # automake
> configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
> configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
> configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
> configure.in:14: required file `./config.guess' not found
> configure.in:14: required file `./config.sub' not found
> lib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
>
> Are these files supposed to be created by autoconf/automake or are they
> supposed to be in the CVS repository? The files "install-sh",
> "mkinstalldirs", and "missing" are in the old source file
> nagios-plugins-1.3.0.tar.gz, but they're not in the CVS repository.
>
> The other three files are nowhere to be found.
>
> For developers who are compiling the plugins on their own machines from the
> CVS source tree, how do you do it? What versions of autoconf/automake are you
> using, and did you have to create other files that aren't in CVS in order to
> compile the nagiosplug code?
>
> As you can probably tell, I'm not that familiar with automake. Most of my
> programming in recent years has been in Perl/Oracle. I'll start digging into
> the automake docs today, since my employer has the enlightened attitude that
> we only use Open Source tools, and if I need to contribute time to Open
> Source projects in order to get my job here done I can do that.
>
> FWIW, I'm using Linux (SuSE 8.1 Pro distribution) with autoconf 2.53, automake
> 1.6.3, and gcc 3.2.
>
>
>
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