configure fails with config.status error cannot find input file Makefile.in

Written by Claudio Kuenzler - 0 comments

Published on November 27th 2015 - Listed in Linux

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When I tried to compile the check_nwc_health monitoring plugin from the github repository, I got the following error:

 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for sh... /bin/sh
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `plugins-scripts/Makefile.in'

Turns out in such a case this requires additional commands to "prepare" the Makefile.in (which will be required for the make command):

# aclocal
# autoconf
# automake --add-missing
Makefile.am:4: warning: shell which dos2unix || which fromdos: non-POSIX variable name
Makefile.am:4: (probably a GNU make extension)
root@nzzinfr-mon01-prod:/tmp/check_nwc_health-4.6.1-ck# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for sh... /bin/sh
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating plugins-scripts/Makefile
config.status: creating plugins-scripts/subst
                       --with-perl: /usr/bin/perl
                --with-nagios-user: nagios
               --with-nagios-group: nagios
              --disable-standalone:

 

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