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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index f3acbe74..7ca9f96f 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -70,16 +70,11 @@ </bookinfo> - <preface id=preface> - <title>About the guidelines</title> - +<preface id="preface"><title>Preface</title> <para>The purpose of this guidelines is to provide a reference for the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para> - - <section> <title>Copyright</title> - <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000 2001 2002 Karl DeBisschop, Ethan Galstad, Hugo Gayosso, Stanley Hopcroft, @@ -89,13 +84,34 @@ copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.</para> - <para>The plugins themselves are copyrighted by their respective - authors.</para> - - </section> + <para>The plugins themselves are copyrighted by their respective + authors.</para> </preface> <article> +<section id="DevRequirements"><title>Development platform requirements</title> + <para> + While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release is very small, + to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the + minimum levels of software required: + + <literallayout> + gnu make 3.79 + automake 1.6 + autoconf 2.52 + gettext 0.11.5 + </literallayout> + + To compile from CVS, after you have checked out the code, run: + <literallayout> + tools/setup + ./configure + make + make install + </literallayout> + </para> +</section> + <section id="PlugOutput"><title>Plugin Output for Nagios</title> <para>You should always print something to STDOUT that tells if the |