[Nut-upsuser] Network UPS Tools version 2.2.2-pre2 released

[Roger Price]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Roger Price <rprice at cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Charles Lepple wrote:
> >
> >  > Do you have libtool installed?
> >
> >  No, it wasn't asked for.
> 
> Hence, my question to Arjen about whether autoreconf needs to be
> called (it uses libtool, but the spec file shouldn't need to call
> autoreconf in the first place).
> 
> I'm no expert on 64-bit systems or RPM-based distributions, but when
> you installed gcc42, what executables are installed that start with
> 'gcc'? (If you type 'gcc<TAB>' on the command line, what is returned?)

Ok, it was just some n00b fumbling - I went back to the openSUSE 10.3 rpm 
repositories and found an rpm "gcc" which installs nothing, but defines 
links /usr/bin/cc -> gcc-4.2 and /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.2

With this in place, the command 

rpmbuild --rebuild nut-2.2.2-pre2.src.rpm

goes further.  The output is visible at http://rogerprice.org/rpmbuild.log
It ends with 

checking whether to enable HAL support... yes
configure: error: "neon libraries not found, required for neon based 
XML/HTTP driver"
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.52627 (%build)

I looked for "neon" in the rpm repositories and found "neon-devel" which 
hadn't been asked for.  I installed it and  rpm -qa | grep neon  now 
reports
   neon-0.26.4-17
   neon-devel-0.26.4-17

With neon-devel in place, the build now produces three rpm's:

Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/nut-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/nut-devel-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/nut-hal-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm

ls -alF /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/ reports:

total 2668
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root    4096 2008-04-19 19:29 ./
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root    4096 2008-03-11 16:35 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2360916 2008-04-19 19:29 nut-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   28061 2008-04-19 19:29 nut-devel-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  321756 2008-04-19 19:29 nut-hal-2.2.2-pre2.x86_64.rpm

I'll try them tomorrow; meanwhile, another n00bie question : What does 
nut-hal do?  Do I need it?

Roger