[collectd] Varnish plugin

[Jerome Renard]

Florian,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jerome Renard <jerome.renard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Florian,
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org> wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:45:51AM +0200, Marc Fournier wrote:
>>> A few relevant pieces below:
>>
> [...]
>
>>
>> To work around these problems, do the following:
>>
>>  - Create the required symlinks by hand:
>>
>>    /usr/lib # ln -s libvarnish.so.1 libvarnish.so
>>    /usr/lib # ln -s libvarnishapi.so.1 libvarnish.so
>
> Confirmed, here is what I get :
>
> jerome at debian-collectd:~/collectd$ find /usr/lib/ -type 'l' -name
> '*varnish*' -print
> /usr/lib/libvarnishcompat.so.1
> /usr/lib/libvarnish.so
> /usr/lib/libvarnishapi.so
> /usr/lib/libvarnishapi.so.1
> /usr/lib/libvarnish.so.1
> /usr/lib/libvarnishcompat.so
>
>>
>>  - Add the .pc file to include the required libraries. Under Debian,
>>    edit /usr/lib/pkgconfig/varnishapi.pc so that the "Libs:" line
>>    reads:
>>
>>    Libs: -L${libdir} -lvarnishapi -lvarnish -lpcre
>
> Actually the correct line is :
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lvarnish -lvarnishcompat -lvarnishapi
>
> Here is the Debian version I use :
> jerome at debian-collectd:~/collectd$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
> Release:        unstable
> Codename:       sid
>

I am thinking about documenting this workaround for Debian.
Iwas thinking about adding a README file especially for that purpose,
do you prefer a README.varnish file or a README.debian one ?

--
Jérôme