maincfgstoragemaker - Support: sr #100497, Installation Problems (Solaris8)

 
 

sr #100497: Installation Problems (Solaris8)

Submitter:  Invalid User ID <#5698>
Submitted:  Fri 01 Mar 2002 03:02:27 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
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Fri 01 Mar 2002 03:02:27 AM UTC, original submission:  


The installation process fails on Solaris 8 as the
install program is the braindaed SysV version. AutoConf
& Friends based tools (see
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ ) normally don't
hard code these program names and options into
Makefiles (well actually Makefile.in).

The variables you need to look at are INSTALL,
INSTALL_PROGRAM and INSTALL_DATA from memory. Also the
use of owner and group options to install is not
standard practice, as it stops unpriviledged users from
running clean "make install"'s.

Given the relative simplicity of the requirements of
the Make side of your project, you might find that a
couple of lines of AutoMake would remove all
cross-platform portability issues.

See
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_35.html#SEC35
- Intrducing GNU AutoMake for more details.

At a minmum you should consider changing the Makefile
to the following:

INSTALL=install
INSTALL_PROGRAM=$(INSTALL) -c -m 0755
INSTALL_DATA=$(INSTALL) -c -m 0644

$(mandir)/cfgstoragemaker.1: cfgstoragemaker.1
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $< $@

$(bindir)/cfgstoragemaker: cfgstoragemaker
        $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $< $@

$(sharedir)/body.tpl: templates/body.tpl
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $< $@

$(sharedir)/header.tpl: templates/header.tpl
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $< $@


Additionally, the main program (the perl script) should
be renamed cfgstoragemaker.in and the location of perl
(#!/usr/bin/perl) and the template directory ($tpl_dir)
should be substituted in as part of the make process.
Similarly command line options to configure to generate
valid local template values for

WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg/storage
IconDir: /mrtg/
LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt

would be advisable.


Also Mention in the doco that program relies on
"snmpwalk" from the ucd-snmp distribution.

Regards,
Peter

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