[smokeping-users] problem building on RHEL

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Al,

the problem most likely is that you did tell configure to install
the RRDs into your site-perl and not into the rrdtool install
directory as it is the case normally.

cheers
tobi


Yesterday Sorrell, Al wrote:

> On RHEL 6.6, I downloaded and installed RRDtool-1.5.3; I did a make and make install, and all seemed to work OK and the example programs work correctly. RRDtool is installed in /export/appl/rrdtool-1.5.3.
> ------------------------
>
> My Perl is V5.20.2 in /usr/local/bin/perl:
> # which perl
> /usr/local/bin/perl
>
> # perl -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for x86_64-linux
>
> --------------------
>
> When I attempt to build Smokeping 2.6.11, the configure fails with the following:
>
> checking checking for perl module 'RRDs'... Can't locate loadable object for module RRDs in @INC (@INC contains: /export/appl/smokeping-2.6.11/thirdparty/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.2/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.2 .) at -e line 1.
> Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
> Failed
>
>
> However, searching in /usr/local/lib/perl5, I find the following, so I'm puzzled!
> # perl -e 'print join( "\n", at INC);'
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.2
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.2/x86_64-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20.2
>
> [/usr/local/lib/perl5]
> # find . -name RRD*
> ./site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux/RRDs.pm
> ./site_perl/5.20.2/RRDp.pm
>
> # ll ./site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux/RRDs.pm
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6020 Jun  3 15:23 ./site_perl/5.20.2/x86_64-linux/RRDs.pm
>
> # ll ./site_perl/5.20.2/RRDp.pm
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5497 Jun  3 15:26 ./site_perl/5.20.2/RRDp.pm
>
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>
> I tried setting PERL5LIB= /export/appl/rrdtool/lib/perl as suggested, but got the same error...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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