CentOS - Jun 2010 - problems building nfdump / nfsen

Hey folks, I posted this as part of another old thread but am starting
a new thread for it because I got no response. I've also since found
the nfdump mailing list but it seems to be dead.   I was not able to
find either of these guys in a CentOS repository anywhere, so I'm
building them manually.   Below was on CentOS 5.2.

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I'm going to kick this old thread because I'm just getting around to
nfdump and nfsen myself, and am having trouble building nfsen.  I do
not see a mailing list for it so I'll try here first.

I am using softflowd to pump netflow information from various linux
boxes into a central collector.  The collector is running nfcapd to
capture everything.  And I also want to run nfsen on this box to be
able to view the pretty graphs on the web :-)   I have verified with
nfdump built on this box that the collector seems to be working fine -
so far so good.

Then when trying to build nfsen it complained about nfprofile not
being there - so some googling later and I found that I have to go
back and rebuild nfdump to include it.

So I do :
./configure --enable-nfprofile
which dies thus :
[...]
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for rrd_update in -lrrd... no
configure: error: Can not link librrd. Please specify
--with-rrdpath=.. configure failed!

But I check and I see I have librrd installed.

[root at rcadmin:~/nf/nfdump-1.6.1]# rpm -qa | grep -i rrd
perl-rrdtool-1.3.7-1.el5.rf
rrdtool-1.3.7-1.el5.rf
[root at rcadmin:~/nf/nfdump-1.6.1]# ls -al /usr/lib/librrd*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321930 May 23  2009 /usr/lib/librrd.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Jun  3  2009 /usr/lib/librrd.so.4 ->
librrd.so.4.0.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 493565 May 23  2009 /usr/lib/librrd.so.4.0.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319096 May 23  2009 /usr/lib/librrd_th.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Jun  3  2009 /usr/lib/librrd_th.so.4 ->
librrd_th.so.4.0.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 488881 May 23  2009 /usr/lib/librrd_th.so.4.0.6

And I do not seem to be able to tell configure how to find it.
These all fail :
./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib
./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr
./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=..
./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib/librrd.so.4
./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib/librrd.a

What am I doing wrong?


[root at rcadmin:~/nf/nfdump-1.6.1]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

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On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> And I do not seem to be able to tell configure how to find it.
> These all fail :
> ./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib
> ./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr
> ./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=..
> ./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib/librrd.so.4
> ./configure --enable-nfprofile --with-rrdpath=/usr/lib/librrd.a
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I had this same problem. Drove me nuts.

The issue (for me anyway) was that the RRD development libraries weren't
installed.

Give this a whirl then re-run 'configure'.

	sudo yum install rrdtool-devel


- tim


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THanks for the quick response - I think i tried that early on just out
of habit (always try something with -devel ending) but it did not find
anything so I figured there was no such thing.  But sounds like I just
have to figure out what repo I'm missing.

[root at rcadmin:~]# yum --enablerepo=* -y install rrdtool-devel
centosplus                100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 203 kB    00:01
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package rrdtool-devel available.
Nothing to do
[root at rcadmin:~]#





-- 
?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV?
         - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"