[Nagiosplug-help] Error compiling Nagios-plugins-1.4.6 for CentOS 4.4

[Vincent K. Britton]

Greetings,

I am installing Nagios for the first time following the instructions in
my book, "NAGIOS System and Network Monitoring" by Wolfgang Barth.
However it really isn't very helpful in the installation.

I have run in to several errors and have been able to figure out the
problems but I am afraid I currently stuck with the installation of the
nagio-plugins.  I downloaded the tar for 1.4.6, configure and make ran
fine.  However upon make install it concludes with the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.6/plugins-root'
 /usr/bin/install -c check_dhcp /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dhcp
 chown root /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dhcp
 chmod 4550 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dhcp
 /usr/bin/install -c check_icmp /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
 chown root /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
 chmod 4550 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.6/plugins-root'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.6/plugins-root'
Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.6/po'
/bin/sh @MKINSTALLDIRS@ /usr/local/nagios/share
/bin/sh: @MKINSTALLDIRS@: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.6/po'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Can anyone please point me in the right direction as to how to proceed?

Thank you in advanced for any help you can offer.

Sincerely,
Vince