[Nut-upsuser] Network UPS Tools 2.4.3 - compile on RHEL5

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hi guys!

I'm desperately trying to update the package we ship at RPMForge and
bump NUT from v2.4.1 to v2.4.3. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be an
easy task by any means.

I was first trying to use ./configure which is bundled with NUT. It
didn't work, because the following check was introduced in
nut-2.4.3/m4/nut_check_libgd.m4 for some reason:

AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gdImagePng, gd, [], [nut_have_libgd=no]) 

and it always fail no matter whether GD is installed or not (in fact, it
is installed and previous checks report that the headers are there and
usable).

I removed this check and did 

autoreconf -vfi

but it needs newer autoconf that comes with RHEL. Fine, I did it with
2.63 installed in /usr/local. Now ./configure works fine, but if fails
to compile on the clean machine with the following message:

if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -I../include -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --para
        then mv -f ".deps/common.Tpo" ".deps/common.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/common.Tpo"; exit 1; fi                                          
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -I../include -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --para
        then mv -f ".deps/state.Tpo" ".deps/state.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/state.Tpo"; exit 1; fi                                             
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -I../include -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --para
        then mv -f ".deps/upsconf.Tpo" ".deps/upsconf.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/upsconf.Tpo"; exit 1; fi                                       
if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -I../include -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOU
        then mv -f ".deps/parseconf.Tpo" ".deps/parseconf.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/parseconf.Tpo"; exit 1; fi                                
../libtool: line 813: X--tag=CC: command not found                                                                                          
../libtool: line 846: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found                                                                     
../libtool: line 813: X--mode=compile: command not found                                                                                    
../libtool: line 979: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found                                        
../libtool: line 980: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found                              
../libtool: line 1123: Xgcc: command not found                                                                                              
../libtool: line 1123: X-DHAVE_CONFIG_H: command not found                                                                                  
../libtool: line 1123: X-I.: command not found                                                                                              
../libtool: line 1123: X-I.: command not found                                                                                              
../libtool: line 1123: X-I../include: No such file or directory                                                                             
../libtool: line 1123: X-I../include: No such file or directory                                                                             
../libtool: line 1123: X-O2: command not found                                                                                              
../libtool: line 1123: X-g: command not found                                                                                               
../libtool: line 1123: X-pipe: command not found                                                                                            
../libtool: line 1123: X-Wall: command not found                                                                                            
../libtool: line 1123: X-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2: command not found                                                                          
../libtool: line 1123: X-fexceptions: command not found                                                                                     
../libtool: line 1123: X-fstack-protector: command not found

OK, it seems that it needs re-libtoolizing with native libtool, because
libtool is to old:

[zyv at servinet nut-2.4.3]$ libtoolize --force --copy
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.

Fine, I run aclocal and relibtoolize. This time is says nothing, but
compilation gives the same error as above.

Now I'm stuck! Please help.

P.S. Also, I'm getting the following warning:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-linux-hiddev 

Does anybody have a clue what happened to this option?

Thanks!
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev