[Nagiosplug-help] make, gmake not working on OpenBSD 3.1

[John Todd]

Wooo hoo!  Thanks!   That did the trick.  Don't know why it didn't 
work even after installing all the auto* packages...

JT


>| From: John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com>
>| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:38:57 -0400
>|
>|    I've read the threads about using "gmake" instead of "make" on the
>| plugins, but neither seems to work in my case.  I am using an OpenBSD
>| 3.1 system with gmake from the ports installation.  After
>| "./configure --with-prefix=/home/nagios" this is what I get:
>|
>| whipped# /usr/local/bin/gmake
>| cd . &&
>| /bin/sh: syntax error: unexpected EOF
>| gmake: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
>
>I suspect you might find this helpful - cheers!
>
>
>     From jsellens Tue Aug 13 22:04:49 2002
>     To: colin.harford at mail.su.ualberta.ca, nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to install nagiosplugins...
>
>     | 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