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

[Lars Stavholm]

Vincent K.Britton wrote:
> That did it, thank you!

You're welcome.

> Is there a resource I could have referenced to solve this problem on my
> own?

Well, no, not really. we use the autoconf tools a lot in our
own projects (and nagios-plugins uses the autoconf tools),
that's why I recognized it. If you really want to now how
it works, the best place to start is:

<http://sources.redhat.com/autobook>

But be warned, it's a bit of a mouthful:)

> I searched, but I couldn't find anything.  If this is a known problem, I
> must have missed something.

Well, it's a known problem now, and the developers
are already working on solving the problem.

Cheers
/Lars

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Stavholm [mailto:stava at telcotec.se] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: Vincent K. Britton
> Cc: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Error compiling Nagios-plugins-1.4.6 for
> CentOS 4.4
> 
> Vincent K.Britton wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, well, that's a thing (bug?) that was introduced in 1.4.6,
> I got around it with the following simple statement:
> 
> % make MKINSTALLDIRS=../mkinstalldirs install
> 
> Hope that works for you as well.
> /Lars
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