[Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins

[Earl C. Ruby III]

I checked out the latest nagiosplug source from the SourceForge CVS repository 
and got this:

# aclocal -I lib
# autoconf
# autoheader
autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
# automake
configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
configure.in:14: required file `./config.guess' not found
configure.in:14: required file `./config.sub' not found
lib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found

Are these files supposed to be created by autoconf/automake or are they 
supposed to be in the CVS repository? The files "install-sh", 
"mkinstalldirs", and "missing" are in the old source file 
nagios-plugins-1.3.0.tar.gz, but they're not in the CVS repository.

The other three files are nowhere to be found.

For developers who are compiling the plugins on their own machines from the 
CVS source tree, how do you do it? What versions of autoconf/automake are you 
using, and did you have to create other files that aren't in CVS in order to 
compile the nagiosplug code?

As you can probably tell, I'm not that familiar with automake. Most of my 
programming in recent years has been in Perl/Oracle. I'll start digging into 
the automake docs today, since my employer has the enlightened attitude that 
we only use Open Source tools, and if I need to contribute time to Open 
Source projects in order to get my job here done I can do that.

FWIW, I'm using Linux (SuSE 8.1 Pro distribution) with autoconf 2.53, automake 
1.6.3, and gcc 3.2.


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Earl C. Ruby III <earl at switchmanagement.com>
Senior System Engineer / Developer
Switch Management