KSMPPD Installation fails with error configure: error: Please install kannel gw-config before installing.

[acaciabengo]

I have been running KSMPPD on Cento 6 for about 4 years. I recently tried upgrading and running it on Centos 7.
However, despite the installation of kannel with gw-config presets, Installation still fails with the error configure: error: Please install kannel gw-config before installing. when I run the command ./configure.
I have tried different versions of Kannel from 1.44 to 1.45 stable versions.

Here is the trace:
./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc -std=gnu99... /bin/ld
checking if the linker (/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for archiver @file support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /bin/nm -B output from gcc -std=gnu99 object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
configure: Checking for libevent2 and its requirements.
checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libxml2... yes
configure: Checking for libevent2 and its requirements.
checking for libevent... yes
checking for shtool... yes
checking for gw-config... no
configure: error: Please install kannel gw-config before installing.

[Floresco]

I've the same issue on CentOS 8... too

To do have any solution?

[acaciabengo]

Check the commits history on master. There is a commit that makes changes to the file. Clone and reset to the commit immediately before the change and then install.

[Floresco]

@acaciabengo , can you please help me. I'm not finding the right commit

[acaciabengo]

Please read through the commits. I cannot recall.

[rajesh6115]

If you have installed kannel gateway properly, then gw-config binary will be installed along with kannel gateway. please make sure this command is available in your path, then installation will work smoothly.

[rajesh6115]

I have tried in Docker with centos8 as I don't have CentOS machine
Please Note the Steps and verify with your steps

1. Make Environment Ready for Package Build

yum update -y
yum groupinstall "Development tools" -y

2. Install Dependencies Packages

yum install libxml2-devel -y
yum install -y libevent-devel
yum install jadetex -y
yum install mysql-devel -y
yum install svn -y

3. Install Kannel gateway (If not Installed Earlier)

cd /usr/local/src/
svn co https://svn.kannel.org/gateway/trunk kannel-trunk --trust-server-cert --non-interactive
cd /usr/local/src/kannel-trunk/
./bootstrap.sh
./configure --with-mysql --enable-ssl --enable-start-stop-daemon --enable-static
make
make install

6. Install Ksmppd from Source

cd /usr/local/src/
git clone https://github.com/kneodev/ksmppd.git
cd /usr/local/src/ksmppd/
curl -O -L "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shtool/shtool-2.0.8.tar.gz"
tar zxvf shtool-2.0.8.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/src/ksmppd/shtool-2.0.8
./configure
make install
cd /usr/local/src/ksmppd/
autoreconf -iv
./configure
make
make install

@Floresco
For your case I guess the kennel gateway installation missing

[Floresco]

Thanks @rajesh6115 for your support.
I put gw-config executable path to $PATH variable and i did the compilation and installation.

Everything went successfull