[collectd] libiptc build problems

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Mirko,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:22:19PM +0200, Mirko Buffoni wrote:
> maybe I missed something here.  On CentOS I didn't find any libiptc, all
> should be included in iptables package.

Yes, it's not unlikely that libiptc is shipped with the iptables
package. On Debian, the lib is shipped with iptables as well, while the
headers are available in iptables-dev.

> I have installed iptables-devel package, I have libiptc.a under /usr/lib.

This seems to be the old, unofficial library. Since it's only available
as a static lib (presumably built without PIC [position independent
code]) you cannot link that into a shared object (all plugins are shared
objects) on a lot of architectures (see [faq:static_libs] for details).

> I added --with-libiptc=/usr/lib
> I do not have Virtual Server (ip_vs.h = no)
> iptables-devel package doesn't come with package config .pc file

Right - the unofficial version of libiptc does not provide a .pc file.

> Is there any other configure parameter I should specify to force correct
> iptc handling?

I recommend using the shipped library in that case, i.e. the
--with-libiptc=shipped configure option available since 4.7.3 / 4.8.0.

HTH,
Sebastian

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