Nut upsuser - Dec 2022 - Compiling on Solaris 8 sparc - configure errors

So with a bit of hacking and tweaking, I think I?m really close to having the
build finish successfully.  I make it to a part with nut-scanner and I get this:

Regenerating the USB helper files in SRC dir.
Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at
../tools/nut-usbinfo.pl line 237.
*** Error code 29
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nut-scanner/nutscan-usb.h'
Current working directory /export/home/vom/Downloads/nut-2.8.0/tools
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nutscan-usb.h'
Current working directory /export/home/vom/Downloads/nut-2.8.0/tools/nut-scanner
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /export/home/vom/Downloads/nut-2.8.0/tools
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive?

I added ?-?without-usb? to configure, but it?s still hitting this part.

Anyone know what this is ?  Or - is there something I can further disable using
./configure that will skip this ?

Thanks.

> On Dec 18, 2022, at 3:00 PM, vom513 <vom513 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So with a bit of hacking and tweaking, I think I?m really close to having
the build finish successfully.  I make it to a part with nut-scanner and I get
this:
> 
> Regenerating the USB helper files in SRC dir.
> Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at
../tools/nut-usbinfo.pl line 237.
So I got past this - threw a hail mary and put an exit 0 at the top of this perl
script.  Seemed to work fine, it kept going and finished the build.

So now I have it installed (again - only using upsmon) and it won?t connect to
my remote NUT instance.  It doesn?t even seem to try to connect (ran tcpdump on
the remote box).

It seems like it doesn?t know how to open a socket on Solaris ?  Anyone have any
ideas ?

Thanks.