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IPFIXcol is an implementation of an IPFIX (RFC 7011) collector
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fastbit issues when compiling ipfixcol #184

Closed batcavelabs closed 7 years ago

batcavelabs commented 7 years ago

I get the following error when trying to compile ipfixcol:

checking for library containing fastbit_init... -lfastbit ./configure: line 16768: syntax error near unexpected token LIBFASTBIT,' ./configure: line 16768:PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBFASTBIT, fastbit >= 2.0.3.2,,' configure: error: ./configure failed for tools/fbitdump

I've install fastbit and pkg_config is installed:

# fastbit-config --version FastBit 2.0.3.2

# pkg-config --version 0.28

This is on ubuntu 16.04

thorgrin commented 7 years ago

Can you please post config.log and the generated configure script itself? Also, which module is failing? Moreover, is this master or devel?

jnathan commented 7 years ago

Perhaps I can add more clarity to this issue. The autoconf generated configure for ipfixcol fails in tools/fbitdump if the user doesn't install libfastbit correctly. All comments below refer to the forked libfastbit repository specified in the ipfixcol README.md,

The failure output:

checking for LIBFASTBIT... no configure: error: Fastbit library version is too low (< 2.0.3.2) configure: error: ./configure failed for tools/fbitdump ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~/src/ipfixcol$ fastbit-config --version FastBit 2.0.3.2

The problem comes in not running autoreconf -i before running ./configure, make, and make install when building the forked libfastbit.

If one fails to run autoreconf -i, fastbit.pc is neither generated (from fastbit.pc.in) nor installed (as fastbit.pc) and thus can't be found with pkg-config when the the generated configure script for tools/fbitdump checks for it.

It might be worth it to better highlight the build instructions or to tweak the autoconf/automake configuration for libfastbit to ensure all the files are generated each and every invocation.

All comments refer to the master branch for both libfastbit and ipfixcol.

thorgrin commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. I've updated the README for libfastbit to say that the autoreconf is really necessary. It does not show my intended highlight, but I hope it will help anyway.