[collectd] collect 4 compilation problem - yajl

[DavidHalko]

I realize this is an old thread, but how has collection 4 been as a front end with the latest collectd 5.x system?

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On Mar 5, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Pavel Kasparek <pavel at iptel.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 5.3.2013 06:49, Marc Fournier wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Excerpts from Pavel Kasparek's message of 2013-03-04 14:56:56 +0100:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to compile collect 4 but got the following error:
>>> 
>>> action_instance_data_json.c:93: undefined reference to `yajl_gen_alloc2'
>>> 
>>> Full error is listed below.
>>> The system is Linux CentOS 6, with the following installed:
>>> yajl-1.0.7-3.el6.x86_64
>>> yajl-devel-1.0.7-3.el6.x86_64
>>> 
>>> The version of collect 4 is 4.0.0.
>> 
>> This is a very old version of collectd, released in 2007. Have you a good
>> reason not to use a more recent version ? The plugins depending on yajl
>> build well on CentOS6 with the latest 4.x as well as the 5.x series of
>> collectd.
> 
> Sorry for confusion, I meant version of Collection 4 is 4.0.0 - I mixed Collect with Collection. I get the error when trying to compile Collection 4. The version of collectd there is 5.1.0.
> 
> Meanwhile I tried compiling it with newer version of yajl-devel 1.0.11 and with that I was able to compile Collection 4. (It took me some time to find some usable rpm of newer yajl-devel, as only 1.0.7 is available in CentOS, and I can't use source tarballs directly).
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavel
> -- 
> Pavel Kasparek
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