Dave Burgess writes:
>I've been playing around with apcupsd (from Linux) for the past couple
>of days, and I have a few things to 'report'.
...
>3)  Has anyone already built a version of this program that we know
>works already?  While it's been a fun little project, I'm not convinced
>reinventing this wheel will be in my best interest.  If no one has, I'll
>be glad to work on it and get it into the packages.

If this is for an APC Smart-UPS you could simply grab 
ftp://ftp.quick.com.au/pub/unix/apcmon.shar.Z
its all bourne shell scripts so no need to compile anything, and it works
on every flavour of *NIX I've used recently.
See also http://www.quick.com.au/sjg/apcmon.html

--sjg