Trying to compile collectd-mod-python

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Hi,

i am quite new to OpenWRT. Hopefully my comments are not complete nonsense.
Since I need a python3 installation on my OpenWRT, I thought I could add collectd-mod-python to the collectd package to avoid having to go through collectd-mod-exec.

To basically test the buildsystem and also check my approach I created collectd-mod-gps first. This works through:

  1. creating a custom packet feed, install gpsd
  2. edit my_packages/utils/Utilities/collectd/Makefile
    COLLECTD_PLUGINS_SELECTED add gps and COLLECTD_PLUGINS_DISABLED remove gps
    add line
$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,gps,gps input,gps,+libgps))
  1. Afterswards the mod collectd-mod-gps is working as excepted.

With collectd-mod-python its not that easy:

$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,python,python binding input,python,+PACKAGE_collectd-mod-python:libpython3))

But I always get errors when resolving the dependencies while configure runs:
Libraries:
libpython . . . . . . no
Modules:
python . . . . . . . no (dependency error)

In make menconfig libpython3 is ticked. I tried different namings:

$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,python,python binding input,python,+libpython3))
$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,python,python binding input,python,+python3))
$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,python,python binding input,python,libpython3))
$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,python,python binding input,python,+libpython))

Any advice how to resolve this error? Thanks!