[collectd] Collectd 4.7.1 and liboping

[Florian Forster]

Hi Bertus,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:36:50PM -0600, Bertus Kruger wrote:
> I've noticed that the collectd 4.7.1 tarballs does not contain the
> liboping source.  Is there a reason for this?  Collectd 4.6.3 still
> had the liboping source directory.

keeping track of the liboping development in the collectd repository was
doubling the work. Since liboping is a separate library there isn't
really a reason to ship it with the source distribution.

> The problem I have is that I want to use the collectd 4.7.1 RPM from
> rpmforge and noticed that the ping.so plugin is missing.  While
> looking at the build logs on rpmforge I noticed that the ping plugin
> didn't get compiled because it could not find liboping.

I think your best bet here is to contact the maintainer of that package
and ask him to add liboping to the build dependencies. I'm sorry this
causes problems for you, but keeping the library in the collectd sources
really didn't make much sense and complicated the build process
considerably.

Regards,
-octo
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