Unable to install nagiosplugins...

Colin Harford colin.harford at mail.su.ualberta.ca
Wed Aug 14 19:51:28 CEST 2002


On 8/13/02 8:04 PM, "John Sellens" <jsellens at generalconcepts.com> wrote:

> | From: Colin Harford <colin.harford at mail.su.ualberta.ca>
> | Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:54:11 -0400
> 
> | 
> | (ardennes!/opt/nagios/nagiosplug-1.3-beta1) [root-ttyp1]
> | # gmake
> | cd . && 
> | /bin/sh: syntax error: unexpected EOF
> | gmake: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> 
> I think there's a problem in the dates on some of the automake-ish
> files in the 1.3-beta1 distribution (which I reported to the
> nagiosplug-devel list earlier today).
> 
> The "cd . &&" command is trying to run automake or aclocal, which
> you likely don't have on your system.
> 
> Try this, which worked for me on a couple of machines:
> 
>   gunzip < nagiosplug-1.3-beta1.tar.gz | tar xf -
>   cd nagiosplug-1.3-beta1
>   touch aclocal.m4; sleep 1
>   touch Makefile.in; sleep 1
>   touch configure; sleep 1
>   ./configure
>   gmake
> 
> Doing the "touch" commands avoids having make want to run automake
> and friends.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John
> jsellens at generalconcepts.com


Thanks,


That seems to fix it.



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