[collectd] Trouble building collectd on RHEL7

[Richard Shade]

You probably need development tools. 5.4.1 is in EPEL though:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/collectd.html

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Corey Kosak <kosak at google.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Thanks,

Richard Shade
Integration Engineer
RightScale - www.rightscale.com
RightScale Community - http://community.rightscale.com
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