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1 =head1 NAME
3 rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
5 =head1 OVERVIEW
7 If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
8 document will give some information on how this is done.
10 RRDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of these libraries
11 may already be installed on your system. You have to compile copies of the other
12 ones before you can build RRDtool.
14 This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
16 These instructions assume you are using a B<bash> shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
17 then you can either type F<bash> to switch to bash for the compilation or if
18 you know what you are doing just replace the export bits with
19 setenv.
21 We further assume that your copies of B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU
22 tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It could be that they are installed as
23 B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
25 =head1 OPTIMISTIC BUILD
27 Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
29 =over
31 =item 1.
33 In which directory you want to build the software.
35 =item 2.
37 Where you want to install the software.
39 =back
41 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
43 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
44 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.2
47 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
48 a different directory!
50 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
52 mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
53 cd $BUILD_DIR
55 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
56 pre-installed.
58 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.2.tar.gz
59 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
60 cd rrdtool-1.3.2
61 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
63 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
64 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries.
66 =head1 INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES
68 If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software repository,
69 you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the packages are
70 installed, run configure again and try to compile again. Below you find some
71 hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool compilation.
73 Additions to this list are welcome. In general rrdtool should work with the
74 latest versions of the libraries. The versions listed here are just what was
75 current when I tested this.
77 =head2 OpenSolaris 2008.05
79 Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:
81 pkg install sunstudioexpress
82 pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
84 There is a problem with F<cairo.pc> on OpenSolaris. It suggests that
85 xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
86 bad since OpenSolaris does not include an F<xrender.pc> file. Use Perl to
87 fix this:
89 perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
91 Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler
93 export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
95 Since there does not seem to be a viable msgfmt tool on OpenSolaris (short
96 of installing it yourself). You have to call configure with the
98 --disable-libintl
100 option.
102 =head2 Debian / Ubuntu
104 Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
105 of packages will get added through dependencies.
107 apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
109 =head2 Gentoo
111 In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to B<emerge
112 rrdtool>. All dependencies will be handled automatically by the portage
113 system. The only thing you should care about are USE flags, which allow you
114 fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
115 flags are available:
117 doc - install .html and .txt documentation
118 into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/
119 perl - build and install perl language bindings
120 python - build and install python language bindings
121 ruby - build and install ruby language bindings
122 tcl - build and install tcl language bindings
123 rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi
125 After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them either in
126 F<make.conf> or F</etc/portage/package.use> and finally run:
128 # emerge -va rrdtool
130 Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to manage USE
131 flags: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2
133 =head1 BUILDING DEPENDENCIES
135 But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually have to
136 compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
137 libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
138 system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
139 possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to our
140 expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
142 =head2 General build tips for AIX
144 If you are working with AIX, you may find the B<--disable-shared> option
145 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
146 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
147 instead.
149 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
151 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
152 export PERLCC=$CC
154 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
156 =head2 Build Instructions
158 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
159 set the following environment variable
161 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
162 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
164 The above relies on the presence of the F<pkgconfig> program. Below you find instructions
165 on how to compile pkgconfig.
167 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know where to find
168 each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS. Unfortunately,
169 the syntax again differs from system to system:
171 =over
173 =item Solaris
175 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
177 if you are using the Sun Studio/Forte compiler, you may also want to set
179 CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC)
180 CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)
182 =item Linux
184 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
186 =item HPUX
188 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
190 =item AIX
192 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
194 =back
196 If you have GNU make installed and it is not called 'make',
197 then do
199 export MAKE=gmake
200 export GNUMAKE=gmake
202 otherwise just do
204 export MAKE=make
206 =head3 Building pkgconfig
208 As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build process will be lots
209 of pain and suffering, so make sure you have a copy on your system. If it is
210 not available natively, here is how to compile it.
212 wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
213 gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf -
214 cd pkg-config-0.23
215 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
216 $MAKE
217 $MAKE install
219 After installing pkgconfig in a custom directory, setting up the corresponding
220 environment variable will be helpful.
222 export PKG_CONFIG=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/pkg-config
224 =head3 Building zlib
226 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
228 cd $BUILD_DIR
229 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
230 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
231 cd zlib-1.2.3
232 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
233 $MAKE
234 $MAKE install
236 =head3 Building libpng
238 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
239 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likely) you can
240 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
241 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
243 cd $BUILD_DIR
244 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
245 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
246 cd libpng-1.2.10
247 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
248 $MAKE
249 $MAKE install
251 =head3 Building freetype
253 cd $BUILD_DIR
254 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
255 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
256 cd freetype-2.3.5
257 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
258 $MAKE
259 $MAKE install
261 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
262 add the following at the start the configure line:
264 env EGREP=egrep
266 =head3 Building LibXML2
268 cd $BUILD_DIR
269 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz
270 gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
271 cd libxml2-2.6.32
272 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
273 $MAKE
274 $MAKE install
276 =head3 Building fontconfig
278 Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
279 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
280 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changing the
281 config file.
283 cd $BUILD_DIR
284 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
285 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
286 cd fontconfig-2.4.2
287 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config
288 $MAKE
289 $MAKE install
291 =head3 Building Pixman
293 cd $BUILD_DIR
294 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
295 gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
296 cd pixman-0.10.0
297 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
298 $MAKE
299 $MAKE install
301 =head3 Building Cairo
303 cd $BUILD_DIR
304 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
305 gunzip -c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
306 cd cairo-1.4.10
307 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
308 --enable-xlib=no \
309 --enable-xlib-render=no \
310 --enable-win32=no \
311 CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
312 $MAKE
313 $MAKE install
315 =head3 Building Glib
317 cd $BUILD_DIR
318 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
319 gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
320 cd glib-2.15.4
321 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
322 $MAKE
323 $MAKE install
325 =head3 Building Pango
327 cd $BUILD_DIR
328 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2
329 bunzip2 -c pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
330 cd pango-1.21.1
331 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
332 $MAKE
333 $MAKE install
335 =head2 Building rrdtool (second try)
337 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
338 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
339 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
340 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
342 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
343 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
344 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
345 their current state.
347 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.2
348 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
349 $MAKE clean
350 $MAKE
351 $MAKE install
353 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the Perl module for the native Perl (the
354 one shipping with Solaris) you will need the Sun Forte compiler installed on
355 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
356 building!
358 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if
359 your build has been successful.
361 =head1 AUTHOR
363 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>