It’s a real pain writing configure scripts. Autoconf makes things easier, but it is really hard to autodetect software correctly.
The plugins are particularly onerous because usually a single executable, say check_ldap, has requirements that no other plugin has.
Lately, I’ve been trying to work out what’s the best way of detecting mysqlclient. For pre-1.4.7, we used mysql_config to gives us the list of necessary libraries at compile time. On my Debian server, mysql_config --libs says: -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm. This was a much better way than trying to manually work out all the various libraries required. So configure said: “if mysql_config exists, compile check_mysql”.
Good, eh? Nope.
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The site was linked from Nagios.org yesterday and a number of users have signed up for the blog and wiki in the first 24 hours. An official email announcement will be going out today – I promise! Thanks to Max Hetrick, Mark Young, and Alessandro Martins for their help in getting the site up and ready.
