In <AANLkTimg31oZsop96O3m5Kruu80XTuPPc1tG6STgz77A at mail.gmail.com> Simon Lenz <lenz.simon at googlemail.com> writes:
I'm trying to compile xymon for several days on my mybookWorld white line NAS
I tried the stable version and the newest beta of xymon, but everytime the configuration script fails.
As you can see(in the following paste), the normal configure script doesn't accept the command line parameters for the pcre and rrdtool folders, so i use the configure.server script directly.
The problem here is that some of the standard Unix commands apparently do not work on your system. If you look at the output on lines 81-83:
Checking for RRDtool ... ./configure.server: build/rrd.sh: 120: tr: not found Makefile.test-rrd:1: Makefile.: No such file or directory
That "tr: not found" means that the "tr" command doesn't exist. That is such a basic Unix command that the configure script assumes it is present, and doesn't check whether that is indeed the case.
In fact, the GNU version of "tr" is part of the "core-utils" package. You generally cannot have a Unix system without this utility.
The effect of this is that the configure script cannot generate the test-utility it uses to determine if RRDtool is installed, and hence it aborts with the error you see. So it's not a problem with your rrdtool installation, it is a case of some basic Unix commands that are missing.
Regards, Henrik