Nut upsdev - Feb 2014 - Strange regression on FreeBSD buildslave regarding HP-UX scripts

For reasons unrelated to NUT, I upgraded my FreeBSD-x86 buildslave machine from
9.1 to 10.0. This involved rebuilding the whole ports tree, but no other
(intentional) changes were made.

Now, I get this error:

 (cd scripts && make  top_distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5
distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5/scripts \
     am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
make[4]: don't know how to make HP-UX/nut-drvctl.sh. Stop

Reference:
http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/public/nut/builders/FreeBSD-x86/builds/146/steps/compile/logs/stdio

Some of the HP-UX scripts predate the SVN /and/ CVS conversion. As such, I
don't have a lot to go on, other than "it just worked before".

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I suspect that some of this will magically go away if I update that directory to
have a Makefile.am rather than a plain Makefile. If I do that, are there any
HP-UX users out there who can test this for me?

Thanks,

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

Please see below. I think I know what is going on (it seems to be a make/gmake
incompatibility), but to fix it, I need to rewrite some of the HP-UX packaging
code, and I need a HP-UX user to help test this. Otherwise, I'm going to
just rip it out for now, and add it back in when someone complains.

On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> For reasons unrelated to NUT, I upgraded my FreeBSD-x86 buildslave machine
from 9.1 to 10.0. This involved rebuilding the whole ports tree, but no other
(intentional) changes were made.
> 
> Now, I get this error:
> 
> (cd scripts && make  top_distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5
distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5/scripts \
>     am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=:
distdir)
> make[4]: don't know how to make HP-UX/nut-drvctl.sh. Stop
> 
> Reference:
http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/public/nut/builders/FreeBSD-x86/builds/146/steps/compile/logs/stdio
> 
> Some of the HP-UX scripts predate the SVN /and/ CVS conversion. As such, I
don't have a lot to go on, other than "it just worked before".
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
> 
> I suspect that some of this will magically go away if I update that
directory to have a Makefile.am rather than a plain Makefile. If I do that, are
there any HP-UX users out there who can test this for me?
-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Please see below. I think I know what is going on (it seems to be a
make/gmake incompatibility), but to fix it, I need to rewrite some of the HP-UX
packaging code, and I need a HP-UX user to help test this. Otherwise, I'm
going to just rip it out for now, and add it back in when someone complains.
I ended up just using GNU make, but this really needs to be cleaned up
at some point. Any testers for HP-UX packaging?

I filed an issue for the FreeBSD side:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/191
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>> For reasons unrelated to NUT, I upgraded my FreeBSD-x86 buildslave
machine from 9.1 to 10.0. This involved rebuilding the whole ports tree, but no
other (intentional) changes were made.
>>
>> Now, I get this error:
>>
>> (cd scripts && make  top_distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5
distdir=../nut-2.7.1.5/scripts \
>>     am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=:
distdir)
>> make[4]: don't know how to make HP-UX/nut-drvctl.sh. Stop
>>
>> Reference:
http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/public/nut/builders/FreeBSD-x86/builds/146/steps/compile/logs/stdio
>>
>> Some of the HP-UX scripts predate the SVN /and/ CVS conversion. As
such, I don't have a lot to go on, other than "it just worked
before".
>>
>> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>>
>> I suspect that some of this will magically go away if I update that
directory to have a Makefile.am rather than a plain Makefile. If I do that, are
there any HP-UX users out there who can test this for me?