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--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
=head1 OVERVIEW
-If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
+If you downloaded the source of RRDtool you have to compile it. This
document will give some information on how this is done.
RRDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of these libraries
Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.2
+ INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.8
If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
pre-installed.
- wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.2.tar.gz
- gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
- cd rrdtool-1.3.2
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.4.8.tar.gz
+ gunzip -c rrdtool-1.4.8.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ cd rrdtool-1.4.8
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software repository,
you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the packages are
installed, run configure again and try to compile again. Below you find some
-hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool compilation.
+hints on getting your OS ready for compiling RRDtool.
-Additions to this list are welcome. In general rrdtool should work with the
+Additions to this list are welcome. In general RRDtool should work with the
latest versions of the libraries. The versions listed here are just what was
current when I tested this.
perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
-Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler
+Make sure the RRDtool build system finds your new compiler
export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
-Since there does not seem to be a viable msgfmt tool on OpenSolaris (short
-of installing it yourself). You have to call configure with the
-
- --disable-libintl
-
-option.
-
=head2 Debian / Ubuntu
Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
=head2 Gentoo
-In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to B<emerge
+In Gentoo installing RRDtool is really simple you just need to B<emerge
rrdtool>. All dependencies will be handled automatically by the portage
system. The only thing you should care about are USE flags, which allow you
-fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
+fine tune features RRDtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
flags are available:
doc - install .html and .txt documentation
If you are working with AIX, you may find the B<--disable-shared> option
will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
-shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
+shared libraries into the RRDtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
instead.
-Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
+Another hint to get RRDtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
export PERLCC=$CC
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
- cd cairo-1.4.10
+ cd cairo-1.6.4
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
--enable-xlib=no \
--enable-xlib-render=no \
$MAKE
$MAKE install
+When building on Solaris you may want todo
+
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
+ --enable-xlib=no \
+ --enable-xlib-render=no \
+ --enable-win32=no \
+ CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
+
=head3 Building Glib
cd $BUILD_DIR
And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
-tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
+tcl setups that would prevent RRDtool from building if they are included in
their current state.
- cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.2
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.4.8
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
$MAKE clean
$MAKE