[Nagiosplug-help] problems compiling plugins, 1.3 beta1

[Subhendu Ghosh]

I posted a news item regarding the CVS tarball in Sourceforge.

We might also want to go ahead an create a beta2 sometime soon.

-sg


On 29 Oct 2002, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:07, John Murray wrote:
> > 	Am working on a x86 with SuSE 8.1 installed.  Have been able to make and 
> > install nagios, but when I attempt to compile the plugins, I get the 
> > following error:
> > 
> > cd . && /usr/bin/aclocal
> > cd . && /usr/bin/automake --gnu Makefile
> > automake: configure.in: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
> > automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
> > automake: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
> > automake: with aclocal and run automake again.
> > make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
> > 
> > 
> > As a side note, I had some previous problems with getting this to work, but 
> > was related to installation of autoconf, which seems to be fixed now.
> 
> Referring to a previous post, I have come to the conclusion that we
> cannot be compatible with all flavours of automake/autoconf. (This
> affects build from CVS only)
> 
> The solution for most users is to get tarball sanpshots from
> www.debisschop.net/src/nagios. We are working on making those available
> on sourceforge as well -- give us a few days.
> 
> For now, the CVS should work against automake-1.4p5-4, autoconf-2.13-17
> (this is what comes with RedHat 7.3). It also works with RedHat 7.2, and
> MAY work with warnings against RedHat8.0
> 
> I have not been able to make it work well with RedHat 8.0 (automake
> 1.6.3/autoconf 2.53) without breaking compatibility with the RH7.3. My
> thinking is to keep CVS as is until someone can provide configuration
> files that work with all falvours of AM/AC or until the newer falvours
> are more well established.
> 
> Of course at some point, we will move the AM/AC reference ahead. In many
> respcts the newerv ersions are much better. My judgement is that now is
> not the time. But I am open to discussion on this point as well.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> --
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
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