make: *** No rule to make target `all'.

[blaine.miller]

make: *** No rule to make target `all'.

I'm doing a make. I'm in the correct directory and even when I give the full directory path, the make fails with the above error message.

I'm a neophyte to all this compiler stuff, so compiling on the fly is new to me.

Any assistance would be appreciated. I'm following the albeit simple instructions for NRPE installation direct from the documentation. The host system is running RedHat 5.3. I can supply whatever other information that may be helpfull.

Right now, I'm at a standstill till I get this figured out.

Thanks!

Blaine

[coopstah13]

did you run the configure script first?

edit, typically you don't need to compile software from source, did you search with yum to see if what you want it there?

[blaine.miller]

Yes I did and yes, but Nagios is compiled from source everytime... sorry for the delay in responding...

Blaine

[coopstah13]

There must have been errors in the configuration script, because otherwise a makefile should have been generated. Look for errors in the configure script, you probably have some missing dependencies.

[blaine.miller]

Thanks, coostah13, I'll start there!

Much appreciated startoff place. As I said, this is fairly new to me...

Thanks again...

Blaine

[reed9]

You can get packages for RHEL5 from a 3rd party repo.

DAG: nagios RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora

nagios rpm - Google Search

[blaine.miller]

Yes! There is an error in the ./configure script! Now how do I rectify that?

It says :

checking for SSL Headers... configure: error: Cannot find ssl headers...

[reed9]

Ah, here's a guide from the Nagios wiki.
Installing NRPE via RPM - Nagios Wiki

[blaine.miller]

Thanks, reed9... let me look there!

Are we sure they'll work with this 3.x version of nagios?

Thanks again...

Blaine

[blaine.miller]

coopstah13, where would I find these missing ssl headers and how/where do I put them so that ./configure can find them?

Thanks!

Blaine