[collectd] Trouble building collectd on RHEL7

[Corey Kosak]

Hi folks,

Apologies if I'm posting to the wrong place.

I've been trying to build collectd from source on a fresh RedHat 7 VM and
I've been having a lot of problems. I'm probably doing something dumb. Is
there a recipe for doing so?

These are the steps I took and what went wrong:


   1. Create a fresh RH7 VM on Amazon Web Services (Red Hat Enterprise
   Linux 7.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-a8d369c0)
   2. *sudo yum -y update && sudo yum -y install git gitk autoconf automake
   flex bison gcc libtool libtool-ltdl*
   3.
*git clone https://github.com/collectd/collectd.git
   <https://github.com/collectd/collectd.git> && cd collectd *
   4. ./build.sh
      1. This results in the error message "WARNING: `yacc' not found!
      Please make sure that `yacc' is installed and is in one of the
directories
      listed in the PATH environment variable."
   5. edit build.sh to change the string "yacc" to "bison"
   6. ./build.sh

The last step prints the following:

+ autoheader
+ aclocal
configure.ac:3988: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in library
+ libtoolize --ltdl --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `libltdl/config'.
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/compile'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/config.guess'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/config.sub'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/depcomp'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/install-sh'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/missing'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/config/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `libltdl/m4'.
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/argz.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/ltdl.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `libltdl/m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
libtoolize: putting libltdl files in LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR, `libltdl'.
libtoolize: `COPYING.LIB' not found in `/usr/share/libtool/libltdl'

... and then stops. I was assuming that this process would generate a
"configure" script that I could run. However it did not. Should I expect
this to build on RHEL7, and if so, does anyone have a recipe for doing so?

Thanks in advance for any advice / help.
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