fastbit issues when compiling ipfixcol about ipfixcol

[thorgrin]

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

[jnathan]

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]

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.