[Nagiosplug-help] Building RPM Red Hat Lijnux 8.0?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

RedHat 8.0 uses the newer autotools which are not fully supported by the 
existing package and probably won't be for a couple of months.

Try downgrading to automake 1.5 and autoconf 2.13

-sg

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to rebuild the nagios-plugins but  ran into some autmoake errors I 
> can not resolve myself. (Being a non-programmer not that surprising I 
> guess.)
> 
> The output I get after trying to run aclocal as instructed:
> 
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43645
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> + LANG=C
> + export LANG
> + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> + rm -rf nagios-plugins
> + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/nagios-plugins-1.3b1.tar.gz
> + tar -xf -
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + cd nagios-plugins
> ++ /usr/bin/id -u
> + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
> + /bin/chown -Rhf root .
> ++ /usr/bin/id -u
> + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
> + /bin/chgrp -Rhf root .
> + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,g-w,o-w .
> + aclocal
> + autoconf
> + autoheader
> WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
> WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
> WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
> 
> WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
> WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
> WARNING: `acconfig.h':
> 
> WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
> WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
> 
> WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
> WARNING: documentation.
> autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
> + automake
> 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.
> plugins/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43645 (%prep)
> 
> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.6.3
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
> autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.53
> automake (GNU automake) 1.6.3
> 
> The original packe is without the aclocal command but I added it after the 
> first error messages I got that told me moe or less to add aclocal:
> 
> autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
> + automake
> 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.
> plugins/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> 
> 

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