Install collectd from source with perl : Geting rid of the error "needs libperl | Some plugins are missing dependencies"

I had to share this with others as it took me a couple of hours before finding a way out for this problem :


When trying to configure collectd (5.3) to use perl on a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 , I was having this configure error :

  configure: error: "Some plugins are missing dependencies - see the summary above for details"

The "summary above" was saying :

** perl . . . . . . . . no (needs libperl) **

I had to install the perl module ExtUtils:Embed to get rid of this problem :

On CentOS  :
** yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed.x86_64 **

And then run the "collectd configure" with the following options :
./configure --enable-curl_json --with-yajl --enable-perl --with-libperl
make all install


Hope this helps