----- Original Message -----
From: "Burton M. Strauss III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 15:29 PM
Subject: RE: [Ntop] rrd plugin doesn't load when ntop starts
> When I CONFIGUREd NTOP w/ unnec (for BSD) --with-gdchart
>
> Understand that while they may not be necessary (IF the .so libraries
> exist), the presence or absence of these configuration parameters causes
> ntop's ./configure to perform different tests.
>
> We used to hand hold you through this, but that causes 1000s of lines of
> configure.in code.
>
> Instead, silly ntop, we belive and use what you tell us.
>
> If you drive a car off a cliff, bad things happen. If you tell a program to
> configure itself stupidly, bad things happen.
>
> The only difference, between 2.1 and 2.2 is that we removed the guardrail...
>
>
> -----Burton
Burton: I understand all of that, but fact is, I spent a couple of
hours tracking that particular kind of error down (after more than a dozen
configure/make cycles) and what ultimately resolved it was to simply use
ONLY those essential options (for FreeBSD), bec somehow CONFIGURE was
getting confused. (As you well know, it's a non-trivial script.) This
particular box failed only at the point of rrdPlugin and I got NTOP (w/
working RRD support) the instant I made this change. That's the reason I
now have my own little script for automagically and reliably bilding NTOP.
It's never failed (under BSD.)
One of these days, I'll probably be inclined to bring up NTOP on a
Linux box and I'm CERTAIN the quirks to make it work will be different,
but in the end, NTOP WILL work....Jet
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