[collectd] Problems using python with RHEL using 4.9 or 5.0

[Mike Zupan]

I've tried compiling collectd using the following flag

./configure --enable-python --prefix=/opt/collectd/
CFLAGS=-"DLT_LAZY_OR_NOW='RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_GLOBAL'"

I've also tried to start it using

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libpython2.4.so ./sbin/collectd -C ./etc/collectd.conf

In the end I still get the following in syslog

Sep  1 08:31:17 mgmt1 collectd[7188]: plugin_load_file: The global
flag is not supported, libtool 2 is required for this.
Sep  1 08:31:17 mgmt1 collectd[7188]: plugin_load_file: The global
flag is not supported, libtool 2 is required for this.

>From everything I've read it seems either option should fix the
problem but it won't seem to go away

thanks
mike