Re: ./configure question for AIX
At 01:05 AM 12/5/2007, Rogelio wrote: I have a question on compiling Nagios' NRPE on AIX (which I'm assuming would be similar to FreeBSDl, as I'm trying to use Autotools on ksh). I'm used to always running tar -zxfv file.tar.gz, but this time I had to run (I think) like tar z and then tar xfv to get it unzipped. In that directory, I then ran ./configure and then make all, and I'm hoping someone here might help point me in the right direction. ./configure --prefix=/opt/nagios --enable-command-args --without-ssl make install When I do this, I get an error about Boutell's GD library is required to compile the statusmap, trends and histogram CGIs. Get it from http://www.boutell.com/gd/, compile it, and use the --with-gd-lib and --with-gd-inc arguments to specify the locations of the GD library and include files. Ok, that's cool. But am I on the right track about how to install this on AIX? Once I installed this GD library and ./configure with the right parameters, will this work in AIX? (Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, as I tend to be spoiled by Linux packages. If not, I can take it elseware) It has been a while since I have done this on AIX, but you just need to check the directory structure is going to be correct. Typically I will run configure and check to see what variables are set for the install directories, and possibly set those differently if configure did not find the correct directories or if I need them set differently. Often this may mean moving the install directories to or from the /usr/local area. You may do well to look for pre-compiled binaries for AIX. Also let me remind you that you could gunzip the .gz file first, then just untar the tarball in two steps, rather than doing it in one step. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:33:37PM -0500, Denny White wrote: [...] Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you can go into a port dir you want to install, and do make extract then cd into the work dir just created, you could do a ./configure with some option afterward that would show you all the available arguments/options you can include when you configure it before making it, instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on the next line where you enter all the arguments and then exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And no, I'm not trying to build binutils. This doesn't work all the time, as the port *may* do some additonal magic just to get port to build. YMMV. Some ports don't even have a `configure' script. The best place to look for supported options is in the Makefile. The porter has already done the hard work. If you want to know more about the port, you should ask the maintainer of the port or the list. As it is, we have no context as to what you're looking at. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door - W.E. Channing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
Denny White wrote: Question is, why I can't get it to work anymore, when I go to a port dir, do a make extract cd work ./configure --arguments I used it before for setting extra arguments on several ports I added. Most ports feed additional options to ./configure, check the port's Makefile to see what it does, or do a make configure or simple make at the top-level of the port instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: Question is, why I can't get it to work anymore, when I go to a port dir, do a make extract cd work ./configure --arguments I used it before for setting extra arguments on several ports I added. Most ports feed additional options to ./configure, check the port's Makefile to see what it does, or do a make configure or simple make at the top-level of the port instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? I never had to add any path to ./configure before. After I wrote this message, I thought about paths did some looking with locate. That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong path in env, something missing, etc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsfHuy0Ty5RZE55oRAuRvAJsH+Gtu2hZexAOzkvCvAc5fnHaQEACgo5Z2 Kx+2QnApIUl8G8skx8kcAYI= =8sgQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? Dunno. What is the problem you have with ports? I never had to add any path to ./configure before. After I wrote this message, I thought about paths did some looking with locate. That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong path in env, something missing, etc. Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the typescript file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? Dunno. What is the problem you have with ports? I never had to add any path to ./configure before. After I wrote this message, I thought about paths did some looking with locate. That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong path in env, something missing, etc. Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the typescript file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you can go into a port dir you want to install, and do make extract then cd into the work dir just created, you could do a ./configure with some option afterward that would show you all the available arguments/options you can include when you configure it before making it, instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on the next line where you enter all the arguments and then exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And no, I'm not trying to build binutils. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsf5Ly0Ty5RZE55oRAoalAJ9OJ/H+kZ1K1OTUXPhWCyULSdTxEQCdGYF5 rkjbIaZ9jCrOCc7sRIoIJjA= =nviR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
Would it be ./configure --help ? You can run it to see what configuration is possible with the src you are building, but that's what port does, it's a frontend to it (correct me with wrong). If you want to build manually the src you need to run ./configure --args like ./configure --with-mysql --with-zlib for php in example, and after the configure script run OK you do make install to make and install the program. HTH, Vinicius Denny White wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? Dunno. What is the problem you have with ports? I never had to add any path to ./configure before. After I wrote this message, I thought about paths did some looking with locate. That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong path in env, something missing, etc. Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the typescript file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you can go into a port dir you want to install, and do make extract then cd into the work dir just created, you could do a ./configure with some option afterward that would show you all the available arguments/options you can include when you configure it before making it, instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on the next line where you enter all the arguments and then exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And no, I'm not trying to build binutils. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote: Would it be ./configure --help ? You can run it to see what configuration is possible with the src you are building, but that's what port does, it's a frontend to it (correct me with wrong). If you want to build manually the src you need to run ./configure --args like ./configure --with-mysql --with-zlib for php in example, and after the configure script run OK you do make install to make and install the program. HTH, Vinicius Denny White wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Denny White wrote: [ ... ] Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong before. I should've said, if I do /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args It works okay. I found that with locate. Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? Dunno. What is the problem you have with ports? I never had to add any path to ./configure before. After I wrote this message, I thought about paths did some looking with locate. That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong path in env, something missing, etc. Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the typescript file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you can go into a port dir you want to install, and do make extract then cd into the work dir just created, you could do a ./configure with some option afterward that would show you all the available arguments/options you can include when you configure it before making it, instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on the next line where you enter all the arguments and then exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And no, I'm not trying to build binutils. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, you'll have to go back to the top of this message to follow from there to here. You top posted, is what I'm saying. Not complaining, just letting you know how to follow the message. /.configure --help works, but only with the complete path I mentioned above. It does, on the other hand, work okay in the form ./configure \ which is also explained above. I probably just don't understand enough will keep playing with it. I was just lazy didn't want to peruse the makefile, write down or print the arguments I wanted to use, they type them in after make. Thanks for the reply. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsi2Xy0Ty5RZE55oRAkF4AJ0dqTgwjHOn0vx2Xy5cg8CxQnOUEQCgiMNj HOCCU8g5YAr+DsH6OpV/B6Q= =s8Nl -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
