1 RRDBUILD(1) rrdtool RRDBUILD(1)
6 rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
9 If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
10 document will give some information on how this is done.
12 RRDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of these
13 libraries may already be installed on your system. You have to compile
14 copies of the other ones before you can build RRDtool.
16 This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
20 pilation or if you know what you are doing just replace the export bits
21 with setenv.
23 We further assume that your copies of t\bta\bar\br and m\bma\bak\bke\be are actually G\bGN\bNU\bU t\bta\bar\br
24 and G\bGN\bNU\bU m\bma\bak\bke\be respectively. It could be that they are installed as g\bgt\bta\bar\br
28 Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
30 1. In which directory you want to build the software.
32 2. Where you want to install the software.
34 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment vari-
35 ables.
37 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
38 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.1
41 you have to choose a different directory!
43 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
45 mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
46 cd $BUILD_DIR
48 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
49 pre-installed.
51 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.1.tar.gz
52 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
53 cd rrdtool-1.3.1
54 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
56 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
60 If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software reposi-
61 tory, you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the
62 packages are installed, run configure again and try to compile again.
63 Below you find some hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool com-
64 pilation.
66 Additions to this list are welcome.
70 Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:
72 pkg install sunstudioexpress
73 pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
76 der is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
77 bad since opensolaris does not include an _\bx_\br_\be_\bn_\bd_\be_\br_\b._\bp_\bc file. Use perl to
78 fix this:
80 perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
84 Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number of
85 packages will get added through dependencies.
87 apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
93 system. The only thing you should care about are USE flags, which allow
94 you fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the fol-
95 lowing USE flags are available:
97 doc - install .html and .txt documentation
98 into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/
99 perl - build and install perl language bindings
100 python - build and install python language bindings
101 ruby - build and install ruby language bindings
102 tcl - build and install tcl language bindings
103 rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi
105 After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them either in
106 _\bm_\ba_\bk_\be_\b._\bc_\bo_\bn_\bf or _\b/_\be_\bt_\bc_\b/_\bp_\bo_\br_\bt_\ba_\bg_\be_\b/_\bp_\ba_\bc_\bk_\ba_\bg_\be_\b._\bu_\bs_\be and finally run:
108 # emerge -va rrdtool
110 Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to manage USE
111 flags: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2
114 But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually
115 have to compile your own copies of some of the required libraries.
116 Things like libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably
117 have them on your system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may
118 be installed, but it is possible that they are pretty old and thus
119 don't live up to our expectations, so you may want to compile their
120 latest versions.
124 If you are working with AIX, you may find the the -\b--\b-d\bdi\bis\bsa\bab\bbl\ble\be-\b-s\bsh\bha\bar\bre\bed\bd
125 option will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to
126 install the shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with
129 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Com-
130 piler:
132 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
133 export PERLCC=$CC
135 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
139 In order to build rrdtool need a compiler on your system. Unfortunately
140 compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS you want
141 to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite. If
142 you have an other compilers here are some ides:
144 Sun Forte
145 CFLAGS="-xO3 -kPIC"
147 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to
148 work, set the following environment variable
150 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
151 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
154 find instructions on how to compile pkgconfig.
156 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know where to
157 find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS. Unfor-
158 tunately, the syntax again differs from system to system:
160 Solaris
161 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
163 Linux
164 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
166 HPUX
167 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
169 AIX
170 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
172 If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make', then do
174 export MAKE=gmake
175 export GNUMAKE=gmake
177 otherwise just do
179 export MAKE=make
183 As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build process will be
184 lots of pain and suffering, so make sure you have a copy on your sys-
185 tem. If it is not available natively, here is how to compile it.
187 wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
188 gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf -
189 cd pkg-config-0.23
190 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
191 $MAKE
192 $MAKE install
196 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
198 cd $BUILD_DIR
199 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
200 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
201 cd zlib-1.2.3
202 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
203 $MAKE
204 $MAKE install
208 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
209 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likely) you
210 can drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash
211 (\) at the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
213 cd $BUILD_DIR
214 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
215 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
216 cd libpng-1.2.10
217 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
218 $MAKE
219 $MAKE install
223 cd $BUILD_DIR
224 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
225 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
226 cd freetype-2.3.5
227 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
228 $MAKE
229 $MAKE install
231 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to
232 try to add the following at the start the configure line:
234 env EGREP=egrep
238 cd $BUILD_DIR
239 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
240 gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
241 cd libxml2-sources-2.6.32
242 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
243 $MAKE
244 $MAKE install
248 Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in
249 INSTALL_DIR/etc you may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds
250 the fonts on your system. Run the fc-cache program to build the font-
251 config cache after changing the config file.
253 cd $BUILD_DIR
254 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
255 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
256 cd fontconfig-2.4.2
257 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
258 $MAKE
259 $MAKE install
263 cd $BUILD_DIR
264 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
265 gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
266 cd pixman-0.10.0
267 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
268 $MAKE
269 $MAKE install
273 cd $BUILD_DIR
274 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
275 gunzip -c cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
276 cd cairo-1.4.10
277 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
278 --enable-xlib=no \
279 --enable-xlib-render=no \
280 --enable-win32=no \
281 CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
282 $MAKE
283 $MAKE install
287 cd $BUILD_DIR
288 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
289 gunzip -c glib-2.12.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
290 cd glib-2.12.13
291 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
292 $MAKE
293 $MAKE install
297 cd $BUILD_DIR
298 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.gz
299 gunzip -c pango-1.21.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
300 cd pango-1.21.1
301 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
302 $MAKE
303 $MAKE install
305 B\bBu\bui\bil\bld\bdi\bin\bng\bg r\brr\brd\bdt\bto\boo\bol\bl (\b(s\bse\bec\bco\bon\bnd\bd t\btr\bry\by)\b)
307 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This
308 time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
309 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
310 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
311 different.
313 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
314 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured
315 python and tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they
316 are included in their current state.
318 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.1
319 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
320 $MAKE clean
321 $MAKE
322 $MAKE install
324 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl
325 (the one shipping with Solaris) you will need the Sun Forte compiler
326 installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bind-
327 ings/perl-shared/Makefile while building!
329 Now go to _\b$_\bI_\bN_\bS_\bT_\bA_\bL_\bL_\b__\bD_\bI_\bR/\b/s\bsh\bha\bar\bre\be/\b/r\brr\brd\bdt\bto\boo\bol\bl/\b/e\bex\bxa\bam\bmp\bpl\ble\bes\bs/\b/ and run them to see if
330 your build has been successful.
333 Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
337 1.3.1 2008-07-23 RRDBUILD(1)