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-1.3rc9
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 $BUILD_DIR
48 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
49 pre-installed.
51 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3rc9.tar.gz
52 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3rc9.tar.gz | tar xf -
53 cd rrdtool-1.3rc9
54 ./configure --prefix=$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 the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
140 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the
141 CFLAGS you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC com-
142 piler suite. If 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:$PATH
154 find instructions on how to compile pkgconfig as well.
156 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know where
157 to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS.
158 Unfortunately, the syntax again differs from system to system:
160 Solaris
161 export LDFLAGS=-R${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:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
172 If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make', then do
174 export MAKE=gmake
175 export GNUMAKE=gmake
177 otherwise just do
179 export MAKE=make
181 Building pkgconfig
182 As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build process will
183 be lots of pain and suffering, so make sure you have a copy on your
184 system. If it is not available natively, here is how to compile it.
186 wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
187 gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf -
188 cd pkg-config-0.23
189 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
190 $MAKE
191 $MAKE install
193 Building zlib
194 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
196 cd $BUILD_DIR
197 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
198 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
199 cd zlib-1.2.3
200 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
201 $MAKE
202 $MAKE install
204 Building libpng
205 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If
206 you already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very
207 likely) you can drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note
208 that the backslash (\) at the end of line 4 means that line 4 and
209 line 5 are on one line.
211 cd $BUILD_DIR
212 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
213 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
214 cd libpng-1.2.10
215 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
216 $MAKE
217 $MAKE install
219 Building freetype
220 cd $BUILD_DIR
221 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
222 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
223 cd freetype-2.3.5
224 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
225 $MAKE
226 $MAKE install
228 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want
229 to try to add the following at the start the configure line:
231 env EGREP=egrep
233 Building LibXML2
234 cd $BUILD_DIR
235 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
236 gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
237 cd libxml2-sources-2.6.32
238 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
239 $MAKE
240 $MAKE install
242 Building fontconfig
243 Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in
244 INSTALL_DIR/etc you may want to adjust that so that fontconfig
245 finds the fonts on your system. Run the fc-cache program to build
246 the fontconfig cache after changing the config file.
248 cd $BUILD_DIR
249 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
250 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
251 cd fontconfig-2.4.2
252 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
253 $MAKE
254 $MAKE install
256 Building Pixman
257 cd $BUILD_DIR
258 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
259 gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
260 cd pixman-0.10.0
261 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
262 $MAKE
263 $MAKE install
265 Building Cairo
266 cd $BUILD_DIR
267 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
268 gunzip -c cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
269 cd cairo-1.4.10
270 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
271 --enable-xlib=no \
272 --enable-xlib-render=no \
273 --enable-win32=no \
274 CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
275 $MAKE
276 $MAKE install
278 Building Glib
279 cd $BUILD_DIR
280 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
281 gunzip -c glib-2.12.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
282 cd glib-2.12.13
283 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
284 $MAKE
285 $MAKE install
287 Building Pango
288 cd $BUILD_DIR
289 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.gz
290 gunzip -c pango-1.21.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
291 cd pango-1.21.1
292 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
293 $MAKE
294 $MAKE install
296 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This
297 time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
298 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
299 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
300 different.
302 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
303 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured
304 python and tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they
305 are included in their current state.
307 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3rc9
308 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
309 $MAKE clean
310 $MAKE
311 $MAKE install
313 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl
314 (the one shipping with Solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler
315 installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bind-
316 ings/perl-shared/Makefile while building!
318 Now go to _\b$_\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
319 your build has been successful.
322 Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
326 1.3rc9 2008-06-08 RRDBUILD(1)