On 2/5/15 3:25 PM, Corey Kosak 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?
Just FWIW, pretty sure collectd *is* in EPEL. But if you need to build from source ... > 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&& 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" the byacc package provides a yacc binary... oh, but whoops: YACC parser.c byacc: e - line 77 of "/root/collectd/src/liboconfig/parser.y", syntax error %error-verbose Ok, yeah, bison seems fine :) > 6. ./build.sh > > The last step prints the following: > > + autoheader > + aclocal > configure.ac:3988 <http://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' try installing libtool-ltdl-devel, not sure if you have it, but that's what provides the file it's looking for. With that I can build on my rhel7 box (after the bison build.sh edit) -Eric > ... 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. _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd