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Thanks gshergill, I really appreciate your dilligence. As I'm working off of a VM, I keep reverting to previous snapshots and restarting from scratch...
this latest time, I took my bear-bones Ubuntu 10.04LTS install, did an "apt-get update", manually installed "build-essential", "libssl-dev" and "xinetd" and successfully ran the configure for the Nagios plugins, this time downloading a fresh copy of the plugins tar file from the website.
I got the same error messages as before when running the make (including the one that you displayed in your most recent post), and several errors like this:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `' or unhandled argument `plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins'
make[2]: *** [check_apt] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16'
make: *** [all] Error 2

when I run the make install for the plugins, I get all of the following errors and none of the system file directories are created (as evidenced by a "directory does not exist" type of error message when I try to chmod them afterwards):
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/gl'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/gl'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/gl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/gl'
Making install in tap
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/tap'
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/tap'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/nagios/include" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/nagios/include"
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/tap'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/tap'
Making install in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
Making install in .
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
Making install in tests
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib/tests'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib/tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib/tests'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/lib'
Making install in plugins
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -DNP_VERSION='"1.4.16"' -g -O2 -L. -o check_apt check_apt.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl/libgnu.a runcmd.o -lpthread -ldl
libtool: link: cannot find the library `' or unhandled argument `plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins'
make[1]: *** [check_apt] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nagios/nagios plug-ins/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

followed by:
root@:~# chmod -R 777 /usr/local/nagios/libexec
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/nagios/libexec': No such file or directory

previously, I tried simply copying over all the missing directories and check commands, but that didn't work either.

anyone have any ideas?

jeremy,

it looks like the configure script can't find the plugins directory

can you try the following: regards,

-Yancy

Thanks for the suggestion yancy, but I tried it, re-configured successfully and got exactly the same issue when I tried to make and make install.
Very frustrating...

Jeremy, could you send us the result of the sudo locate "nagios-plugins-1.4.16" command please?

Success!!!!!!!!
There were several variables that I changed at the same time, so I'm not 100% sure which was responsible for the success (doh!!), but I suspect its the following #1 :
1) my installation directory for both Nagios plugins and the NRPE agent had spaces in it, so I shortened the directory name with dashes and the system recognized the directory names
2) I added a configure reference to SSL and SSL lib for the NRPE agent installation

Here are my steps:
1) apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev libssl-dev openssl build-essential xinetd chkconfig, then apt-get update
2) make sure installation directory names have no spaces in them!!
3) useradd nagios, passwd nagios
4) from Nagios plugin installation directory:
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install
5) from Nagios NRPE installation directory:
./configure --with-ssl=/usr/bin/openssl --with-ssl-lib=/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-command-args
make all
make install-plugin
make install-daemon
make install-daemon-config
make install-xinetd
6) edit /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe, add nrpe server IP to "only_from" field
7) edit /etc/services, add "nrpe 5666/tcp #NRPE" at the appropriate line
8) reboot server
9) chkconfig nrpe on
10) netstat -at |grep nrpe
11) ./usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost

what a pain in the @#$%& that was!! : )
thanks so much to everyone who submitted suggestions and advice, my solution seemed to be a wild combination of everyone's suggestions and bits and pieces from the community.
much appreciated!!!

- Jeremy

Glad its working, and thank you for providing working steps! Hopefully this also helps someone else in the future.