Nut upsdev - Dec 2007 - problems reviving and old ups-driver

Hello,

after upgrading to a newer distribution (FC8), I found that the driver
hp.c (used to work fine for me with nut 2.0.0 on FC6) does not work
anymore with 2.2.0.
I want to modify it, as it is contains much of the new structure
(>1.4.0) already.

However, I cannot even get "make" to touch it. I have copied it into
the
drivers directory.
Then I did
./configure
make

All drivers compile without problems, but there is no hp- executable or
even a reference to any error.

If I configure with

./configure --with-drivers=hp


it does find hp but gives a lot of errors:

In file included from hp.c:6:
main.h:1:20: error: common.h: No such file or directory
main.h:2:21: error: upsconf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.h:3,
                 from hp.c:6:
dstate.h:23:23: error: attribute.h: No such file or directory
dstate.h:25:23: error: parseconf.h: No such file or directory
dstate.h:26:24: error: upshandler.h: No such file or directory

if I do the same thing with

./configure --with-drivers=skel

it works fine


next I renamed skel.c to hp.c:

mv hp.c hp.orig
cp skel.c hp.c

then
make distclean

./configure --with-drivers=hp

make

I get the exact same errors although the hp.c is now really the working
skel.c - my expectation was to just throw in the hp.c file and have
"make" take care of all dependencies.
There seems to be more to it and I could not find any hints so far.
What am I missing?

Thanks and happy holidays,

Uwe

On Dec 29, 2007 1:38 PM, uwe <nut at df3du.mine.nu>
wrote:
> I get the exact same errors although the hp.c is now really the working
> skel.c - my expectation was to just throw in the hp.c file and have
> "make" take care of all dependencies.
> There seems to be more to it and I could not find any hints so far.
> What am I missing?
The drivers/Makefile.am file lists all of the source files that need
to be considered for compiling and dependency checking.

Since hp.c is a serial driver, just check for the "serial drivers'
comment and add a line like the following:

hp_SOURCES = hp.c

If it uses any math library functions, there are several examples
showing how to add "-lm" to the LD flags.

Eventually, you will want to add it to the SERIAL_DRIVERLIST variable
so that it is built automatically.

In order to automatically pick up any changes to Makefile.am or the
other build files, you probably want to pass
"--enable-maintainer-mode" to ./configure as well as the
"--with-drivers=hp" flag. You will need recent versions of autoconf
and automake.

Thanks for taking the time to update this driver! Email the list if
you have any other questions.

-- 
- Charles Lepple