I am installing Nagios on a RH 8.0 box, and during the compilation of the plugins (1.3-beta1) i get

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Stefan Hanssen wrote:

> I am installing Nagios on a RH 8.0 box, and during the compilation of the plugins (1.3-beta1) i get the following errors:
> 
> [root at monitor01 nagiosplug-1.3-beta1]# autoconf
> [root at monitor01 nagiosplug-1.3-beta1]# 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 updated
> [root at monitor01 nagiosplug-1.3-beta1]# 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
> [root at monitor01 nagiosplug-1.3-beta1]#
> 
> 
> Anyone have an idea of what is wrong ?
> 
> PS. Sorry if this mail has been sent twice. I got an error the first time, so i sent it again.
> 

This is known - RH 80 ships with the new autoconf 2.53 and new automake.

Nagiosplug is built with autconf 2.13 and autmake 1.5.

Use the 1.3 release tarball.  Its the latest release and you don't need 
the auto tools if you use the tarballs.  (autotools are needed for CVS 
snapshots)

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-sg



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