how do i work automake [solved]

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5213

i downloaded a tgz file with the following files:

Hu · Watchman Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 6828

That tgz looks incomplete. Automake would be used to convert a Makefile.am into a Makefile.in. Since you already have a Makefile.in, you can skip Automake and go directly to converting Makefile.in into a Makefile. Unfortunately, that task is typically done by configure. Where did you get the tgz? Are there any supporting files in a secondary tarball?

If not, you will need to convert the Makefile.in into a Makefile by hand. This is usually a time-consuming process, since it was meant to be done by an autoconf-generated configure script. The other option is to write your own configure.ac and hope that Autoconf produces a configure which does all the necessary substitutions. If you want help writing a basic configure.ac, post back. Some autotools guru can probably hack one up, especially if we can see the contents of Makefile.in.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5213

darn. i guess i'll have wait for someone to fix it...

thanks
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Hu · Watchman Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 6828

Basic configure.ac files are not hard to write. If you point me to a copy of the Makefile.in, I will try to write one. Configure scripts only get complex when they start to support fancy features like conditionally enabling a package feature or searching for a library.

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5213

solved - i found a website for the tarball, and says i need to compile it using a nagios-plugins source tarball.

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