The configure script really needs a complete run through by somebody who is an
autotools guru. There are some other library dependancies that aren't being
picked up even on the linux platform. When I was building again yesterday on a
clean install of SLED, after running the configure script successfully, the
build still had problems with missing libfreetype, libpng and libart_lgpl. As
stated by Jesse, I'm sure that there are several issues remaining with libapr1.
Here is a call for all of those autotools gurus out there to give the configure
script a good run through. Especially on platforms other than Linux.
Brad
>>> Jesse Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/29/2007 7:56 AM >>>
I've been trying to build the trunk version of Ganglia on an OpenBSD 4.1 box
recently, and it isn't for the faint of heart. Rather, I should say that
debugging autoconf/automake foibles isn't for the faint of heart.
Background info:
OpenBSD 4.1 (release)
apr-1.2.7
libconfuse-2.5p0
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Everything is installed as a package, if possible, and from /usr/ports, if not.
After running the bootstrap script, I call:
./configure --with-libapr=/usr/local --with-libconfuse=/usr/local
For some reason, libexpat is found automatically, and I don't need to indicate
a location, even though it also resides in /usr/local.
Initially, the configure script was "unable to find libconfuse", even though
it is installed and usable. After much digging, I found that libconfuse has
dependencies on libintl and libiconv. These two libraries are not included in
LDFLAGS for that section of the configure script, and test compile would then
fail. The error is a misleading since it *found* the library; it just
couldn't compile something using it. (not blaming this on Ganglia, since it's
an autoconf issue)
I'm no expert on autoconf, but I think that this small patch fixes this
problem on OpenBSD:
--- configure.in.orig Wed Nov 28 16:34:39 2007
+++ configure.in Wed Nov 28 16:53:16 2007
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
echo Checking for confuse
if test x"$libconfusepath" != x && test x"$libconfusepath" != xyes ; then
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$libconfusepath/include"
- LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$libconfusepath/lib"
+ LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$libconfusepath/lib -lintl -liconv"
echo "Added -I$libconfusepath/include to CFLAGS"
echo "Added -L$libconfusepath/lib to LDLAGS"
fi
Unfortunately, the problems don't end there; there are issues with apr.
For some reason, APR_CONFIG and APR_INCLUDES are not properly set in any of
the resulting Makefiles, nor is set in config.log. The configure script does
find apr-1-config though, as shown in the output from ./configure:
Checking for apr
Added -I/usr/local/include to CFLAGS
Added -I/usr/local/lib to LDLAGS
checking for apr_socket_send in -lapr-1... yes
The ganglia utilities use the Apache Portable Runtime functions
(http://www.apache.org/)
Found a suitable libapr1 library
The solution I found to fix this problem is much less elegant:
find . -name Makefile | xargs perl -pi \
-e 's,APR_INCLUDES =.*,APR_INCLUDES = -I/usr/local/include/apr-1,;' \
-e 's,^(CFLAGS = .*),$1 -I/usr/local/include/apr-1,;'
I think that if APR_CONFIG were properly set, then APR_INCLUDES (and CFLAGS!)
would also be fixed as well.
After doing all this, ganglia compiles, and appears to work fine.
--
Jesse Becker
NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor)
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