Missing scripts?

Jamie jamie at bclnz.net
Thu Mar 6 01:36:09 CET 2003


no such issues on my woody ;-) (i.e. not sarge)

sometimes it's better to run woody/stable and pin to sid or sarge for
specific packages. Sarge can sometimes be in no mans land.

Why are you building from source?

Hats off to your patience Stanley.

jamie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanley Hopcroft" <Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
To: "Greg Webster" <greg at intouch.ca>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Missing scripts?


> Dear Sir,
>
> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:08:15PM -0800, Greg Webster wrote:
> >
>
> Please have your mailer wrap the lines to about 72 columns.
>
> > Actually, all I'd like is for it to be just a little more concise with
the error message. For example, if I have libgd and libpng in perfect order,
but libjpeg is missing then it should tell me that it's libjpeg that's
missing, not the general error message it does now.
> >
>
> This is _unrealistic_.
>
> Suppose a program needs 'n' libraries to link.
>
> After Configure fails to compile a test program using the presumed
> locations of these 'n' libraries, it would then have to build test
> programs for _each_ of the n libraries to test their presence.
>
> This would bloat configure without adding any benefit.
>
> The message is clear. Either,
>
> 1 There is a bug in configure that makes it impossible to build Nag on
> Debian
>
> ==> Perhaps you should try the Deb package/port.
>
> 2 Your system is missing libraries or headers.
>
> > Does anyone else have this running on Debian?
> >
> > Greg
>
> Yours sincerely.
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stanley Hopcroft
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
> from Meditation 17, J Donne.
>
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