Redhat 8.0 installation problems

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to suggest as a general comment for posters to this list 
that in order to get answers that aren't guesses (attempts to manually 
walk through a binary tree of problem causes, one node at a time) or 
that don't take a lot of time to get resolved, that

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:02:58PM -0500, Rob Enders wrote:
> Hi all.. I am not having much luck installing nagios on Redhat 8.0. I have
> installed the gd libraries, including jpeg and png that come with redhat. I
> have added the --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include which do
> point to the gd libraries and includes. I still get the 'GD, PNG, and/or
> JPEG libraries could not be located...' error.
> 

any problems with configuring, building Nagios and or the plugins or 
addons be accompanied by the __appropriate__ lines from the configure or 
make output.

For example, when Nagios/Netsaint can't find an optional library or 
its headers - absolutely mandatory to link against - I would recommend 
something like

1 rerun configure like so

./configure 2>&1 > configure.out.$$


2 grep -3 -i jpeg configure.out.nnnn > junk 
  grep -3 -i gd   configure.out.nnn  >> junk

and post the file named 'junk' with the problem report

If that's too hard or too much work, then at least post the summary from 
configure (the last 15 lines of its output).

Be aware of what configure is doing: it attempts to locate files by 
looking in known paths for them. If it finds them it compiles a two line 
C program to make sure that the headers and libraries are usable.

If either part of the process fails, then the optional library (gd, 
openssl, net-snmp etc etc) won't be used.

Also configure is only another program; it too can have bugs.


> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rob

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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