[collectd] Compiling 5.0 on Ubuntu 11.04

[Francois-Xavier Bourlet]

Honestly, I dont like autotools, maybe because I dont know how to use
it as much... so my help stop's here, sadly...

good luck... could somebody else on the mailing list could hear you.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Bill Harris <savoy9020 at texoma.net> wrote:
> That helped,some. it whined during the build.sh about
> libgcrypt being missing, and aborted shortly..
>
> Did have to install several of the build tools, lex,yacc,
> libtool,etc..
>
>
> I checked out master build.sh completed, so ran
> ./configure..   It seemed to almost run successfully,
> then aborted with, guess what, a syntax error
> unexpected token '1:1.2.0,,with _libgcrypt=no..
>
> Hmm..  5.00 built so nicely on FreeBSD 8.2..
>
> This is Ubuntu Server 11.04 (just released last week)
>
> Bill
>
> On 5/4/11 11:59 AM, "Francois-Xavier Bourlet"
> <francois-xavier.bourlet at dotcloud.com> wrote:
>
>> try something like:
>>
>> $clone git://github.com/octo/collectd.git
>> $cd collectd
>>
>> now checkout to the lastest but one commit:
>>
>> $git checkout HEAD^
>>
>> (yes the "^" is important)
>>
>> then configure the build system:
>>
>> $./build.sh
>>
>> then configure the build itself:
>>
>> $./configure
>>
>> build:
>>
>> $make
>>
>> install:
>>
>> sudo make install
>>
>> If thats still do not build correctly, i notice that build.sh create
>> the missing files, and if you go back to the latest commit:
>>
>> $git checkout master
>>
>> The missing files are now present, and so
>>
>> $./build.sh
>>
>> will work again, then you can continue on the configure&make steps.
>>
>> Hope I helped you,
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Bill Harris <savoy9020 at texoma.net> wrote:
>>> Hmm, not very familiar with git..
>>>
>>> I tried a "git clone git://github.com/octo/collectd.git"
>>> but it didn't have a configure file, so tried with "autoconf"
>>>
>>> That didn't work to well either.
>>>
>>> The daily builds don't appear to be working.. Is there a recent
>>> daily build somewhere else I could get?
>>>
>>> I did see where the supplied iptc was removed.. recently.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/3/11 12:15 PM, "Francois-Xavier Bourlet"
>>> <francois-xavier.bourlet at dotcloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> if you are compiling from the latests sources, you can still checkout
>>>> to the latest but one commit, and try again to build. Pay attention
>>>> that clean.sh do not clean everything. you would like to checkout in a
>>>> empty directory before building.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Bill Harris <savoy9020 at texoma.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a patch to fix this iptc issue with collectd on Ubunutu Server
>>>>> (11.04) i386?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -Wall -Werror -g -O2 -c libip4tc.c
>>>>>  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libip4tc.o
>>>>> In file included from libip4tc.c:136:0:
>>>>> libiptc.c:84:8: error: redefinition of Œstruct xt_error_target¹
>>>>> /usr/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h:69:8: note: originally defined here
>>>>> make[3]: *** [libip4tc.lo] Error 1
>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bharris/work/collectd-5.0.0/src/owniptc'
>>>>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bharris/work/collectd-5.0.0/src'
>>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bharris/work/collectd-5.0.0/src'
>>>>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>>>
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François-Xavier Bourlet