[Nagiosplug-devel] INSTALL and INSTALLING

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	Actually I would think creation of a m4/ subdirectory might be
a better solution for just the m4 files as they are only need'd when
running the auto* utilities... I had thought about breaking some of the
things we have in the configure.in currently into seperate AC_DEFUN()
that could be called... I already started a lil of that when I added to
the acinclude.m4 for the gethostbyname and getaddrinfo checks... These
could actually be placed in a directory and just included through the -I
option...

	The advantage of doing this would be to trim down the actual
content of the configure.in so that it was only calling the necessary
functions that could be maintained in seperate files... Specially when
you look at what has had to be done to the configure.in to test for
ICMPv6 support...

	I'm also working on an additional lib function to handle the
ICMP/ICMPv6 internally and hope that if I can accomplish this task then
I can really clean a lot of the ICMP ping cruft out of configure.in and
have an internal standardized ping function... I've got Solaris 8 & 9,
OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux to test it on so I'll definately be looking
for help by others to test other platforms...

	Jeremy

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:20:36PM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> No idea about why there are two files.
> The -I lib was for grabbing .m4 files. This was originally for 
> getloadavg.m4, but Karl came up with another method in configure.in 
> instead of using the .m4. I suggest leaving it in for future m4 
> inclusions.
> 
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:34  pm, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> 
> >	Is there any reason for the duplication of documentation files?
> >A 'diff -u INSTALL INSTALLING' only produces:
> >
> >--- INSTALL     2003-02-19 00:36:38.000000000 -0800
> >+++ INSTALLING  2002-10-16 23:06:43.000000000 -0700
> >@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> > 0) If using the CVS tree, you need m4, automake, and autoconf. To
> >    start out, run:
> >
> >-       # aclocal -I lib
> >+       # aclocal
> >        # autoconf
> >        # autoheader
> >        # automake
> >
> >	So is there any reason for both to be there?
> >
> >	Jeremy
> >
> >
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