NAME
    nrpe/solaris/build - how to build a Solaris NRPE package from sources
    here.

NOTE
    You don't *need* to do all this. You could also just fetch the prebuild
    binary package for your Solaris version, and install that one, using
    pkgadd(1).

For your copy-and-paste pleasure
  Setting up the files
    Download nrpe-1.9.tar.gz and nrpe-1.9_3.diff.gz. nrpe-1.9.tar.gz is the
    vanilla upstreams source, you might as well get it from upstream.

    Unpack the source

     gunzip -c nrpe-1.9.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    Now, using a sane patch(1), apply the patch, running

     gunzip -c nrpe-1.9_3.diff.gz | patch -p0

    . Beware: Solaris patch, as shipped with Solaris 8, does *not* do this
    trick. A patch which works is e.g. Larry Wall's GNU patch available from
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/patch/ , and, in Solaris pkg format, from
    http://www.sunfreeware.com/ .

    You could also perform this step on a nearby GNU/Linux or *BSD system,
    which likely has a right patch(1) installed.

  Optionally: copy patched stuff around
    If you need to build the package on a different platform as where you've
    patched it, pack the patched tarball together doing

     tar zcf nrpe-1.9.solaris.tar.gz nrpe-1.9

    . Copy this file around, and unpack it again on the build platform

     tar zxf nrpe-1.9.solaris.tar.gz

    .

  Building the Solaris package
    In the

     nrpe-1.9/

    directory, run

     make -f solaris/Makefile

    . (Both Solaris make (tested with SunOS 5.7 /usr/ccs/bin/make) and GNU
    make do fine.) This creates binary packages

     /var/tmp/nrpe-1.9_3-sol8-sparc-local

    and, for your convenience

     /var/tmp/nrpe-1.9_3-sol8-sparc-local.gz

    . If you're building on a SunOS 5.7 box, do

     make -f solaris/Makefile OSVERSION=sol7

    to get a nice OS string in the package name.

  Installing the package
    On the platform where you'd like to run NRPE, install it doing

      pkgadd -d nrpe-1.9_3-sol8-sparc-local

    .

RECREATING THE SOURCE PACKAGE
     tar zxf nrpe-1.9.tar.gz
     mv nrpe-1.9 nrpe-1.9.orig
     tar zxf nrpe-1.9.tar.gz
     cd nrpe-1.9
     mkdir solaris
     cp /some/where/{Makefile,README.Solaris,nrpe,pkginfo.in,postinstall,preinstall,prototype} solaris
     make -f solaris/Makefile source-stamp
     diff -Pdur nrpe-1.9.orig nrpe-1.9 | gzip -c > nrpe-1.9_3.diff.gz

    Your diff(1) needs to understand the "-P" flag. Solaris diff(1) does
    *not*. GNU diff, from the GNU diffutils package,
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/diffutils/ , does.

VERSION
    $Id: build.pod 1507 2003-12-23 15:39:20Z joostvb $

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2003 Tilburg University

    This document is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU GPL, available on-line at
    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html . There is NO WARRANTY.

AUTHOR
    Joost van Baal <joostvb.uvt.nl>