[rrd-developers] Link issue with libdbi

[Martin Sperl]

Sorry, but I have no access to an ubuntu system...

Martin

On 07.02.2011, at 23:58, Bernard Li wrote:

> Hi Martin:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Martin Sperl <rrdtool at martin.sperl.org> wrote:
> 
>> a) link with the absolute path to link the so library and not use "-l rrd"
> 
> Actually if you take a look at the log from my original message, it is
> using -lrrd.
> 
>> b) you need to explicitly linkt libdbi again, if your code is not using it.
> 
> Our code is not using it, but I guess somehow when it was bootstrapped
> on the RHEL box, it added this dependency
> 
> I think you would be able to understand the situation a bit better if
> you were to try to build the tarball yourself:
> 
> http://therealms.org/oss/ganglia/techpreview/ganglia-3.2.0.2466.tar.gz
> 
> On a Ubuntu system w/ librrd-dev installed (with libdbi support), run
> ./configure --with-libpcre=no --with-gmetad
> 
> then run make, and you should get the error I've encountered.
> 
> Much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernard