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