Posted https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/1560 lest we forget :)
Jim On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 02:06 Jim Klimov <jimklimov+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Haven't poked INSTALL.nut for a while, PRs welcome. And there were many > bite-size PR ideas in this thread ;) > > There was quite a bit of details poured into docs/config-prereqs.txt that > grew along with CI farm over the past year or two, so covers many OSes > (even Windows, it its branch). > > From my stunt at packaging NUT for some in-house stuff and researching > others' work, the approach I saw often was to `configure --with-all` and > add `--without-something` for components utterly missing on a particular > OS. Then the resulting binaries are assigned to this or that package to > group drivers by dependencies, clients, tools, etc. > > The help text posted above seems to be from a system that lacks shared > net-snmp, libusb, etc. which nut-scanner loads dynamically by design of its > era, so it could be bundled freely and without impacting the binary file by > strict links to shared objects. Worked for you in fact - libraries missing > but tool does run for other protocols. A downside is dependency on lib file > naming and location (master may be more flexible in that since last week's > PRs). > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 17:55 Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > >> >> It turns out that there is a bug in nut about this, in 2.8.0. >> >> I checked the pkgsrc package, and it doesn't have nut-scanner. Usually >> what is packaged is what upstream installs. On digging in, I found that >> the package did not declare a dependency on libltldl and thus it was not >> visibile during the build, and nut-scanner was not built. >> >> The first bug is that this is not documented in INSTALL.nut. If it >> were, it would be a package bug not to provide it. It is sort of hinted >> at that somehwere else there is a list of prereqs, and I eventually >> found them, but I think "this is what you need installed to build", even >> if a pointer, should be front and center in a really-hard-to-miss way. >> And, there is a huge list of per-OS, without first things being >> described in terms of upstream package names in an >> OS/distribution-agnostic manner. >> >> The second bug is that the nut-scanner man page is installed even if >> nut-scanner is not built. Probably the fix is to move man pages to be >> with their programs so docs/code match, but that is surely a can of >> worms and just conditionalizing it in the Makefile.am the same way that >> the nut-scanner subdir is conditionalized is reasonable. >> >> I changed pkgsrc to depend on libltldl and now I get nut-scanner. I'll >> likely commit that change. But, the main nut package does not use usb, >> and I haven't figured out how that works with the usb split package. >> >> (I am not meaning to assert that nut-scanner does or does not belong as >> default or that users should or should not use it.) >> >> The nut-scanner I got doesn't seem that useful: >> >> OPTIONS: >> -C, --complete_scan: Scan all available devices except serial ports >> (default). >> * Options for USB devices scan not enabled: library not detected. >> * Options for SNMP devices scan not enabled: library not detected. >> * Options for XML/HTTP devices scan not enabled: library not detected. >> -O, --oldnut_scan: Scan NUT devices (old method). >> * Options for NUT devices (avahi method) scan not enabled: library not >> detected. >> * Options for IPMI devices scan not enabled: library not detected. >> -E, --eaton_serial <serial ports list>: Scan serial Eaton devices >> (XCP, SHUT and Q1). >> -T, --thread <max number of threads>: Limit the amount of scanning >> threads running simultaneously (not implemented in this build: no pthread >> support) >> _______________________________________________ >> Nut-upsuser mailing list >> Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net >> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser >> >
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