Building latest collectd on Amazon Linux server in AWS

1. yum install byacc flex automake libtool libgcrypt-devel glib2-devel libtool-ltdl-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
1. comments below imply this may be necessary: apt-get install bison
2. git clone https://github.com/collectd/collectd.git
3. cd collectd
4. ./build.sh
5. ./configure
6. make 

 Some helpful libs, start over to use them

1. yum install lvm2-devel net-snmp-devel liboping-devel libpcap-devel libesmtp-devel libcurl-devel libmnl-devel

Dated: Nov, 2013

Fix bad/wrong aclocal version during make

1. autoreconf -fi
1. updates generated configuration files

This was necessary when building tsunami-udp from cvs repository, the configure files were old/incompatible.

Taken: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8865093/should-a-configure-script-be-distributed-if-configure-ac-is-available

Asterisk pre-reqs for compiling on Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get -y install make libncurses-dev libxml2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libiksemel-dev libssl-dev  subversion