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Imported upstream version 1.3.7.
[pkg-rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.txt
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ O\bOP\bPT\bTI\bIM\bMI\bIS\bST\bTI\bIC\bC B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bD
        ables.
 
         BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
-        INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.5
+        INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.7
 
        If your _\b/_\bt_\bm_\bp is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that)
        you have to choose a different directory!
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ O\bOP\bPT\bTI\bIM\bMI\bIS\bST\bTI\bIC\bC B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bD
        Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
        pre-installed.
 
-        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.5.tar.gz
-        gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
-        cd rrdtool-1.3.5
+        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.7.tar.gz
+        gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.7.tar.gz | tar xf -
+        cd rrdtool-1.3.7
         ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
        Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
        Below you find some hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool com-
        pilation.
 
-       Additions to this list are welcome.
+       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.
 
        O\bOp\bpe\ben\bnS\bSo\bol\bla\bar\bri\bis\bs 2\b20\b00\b08\b8.\b.0\b05\b5
 
@@ -72,9 +74,9 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         pkg install sunstudioexpress
         pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
 
-       There is a problem with _\bc_\ba_\bi_\br_\bo_\b._\bp_\bc on opensolaris. It suggests that xren-
+       There is a problem with _\bc_\ba_\bi_\br_\bo_\b._\bp_\bc on OpenSolaris. It suggests that xren-
        der is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
-       bad since opensolaris does not include an _\bx_\br_\be_\bn_\bd_\be_\br_\b._\bp_\bc file. Use perl to
+       bad since OpenSolaris does not include an _\bx_\br_\be_\bn_\bd_\be_\br_\b._\bp_\bc file. Use Perl to
        fix this:
 
         perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
 
         export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
 
-       Since there does not seem to ba a viable msgfmt tool on opensolaris
+       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
@@ -132,8 +134,8 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
 
        G\bGe\ben\bne\ber\bra\bal\bl b\bbu\bui\bil\bld\bd t\bti\bip\bps\bs f\bfo\bor\br A\bAI\bIX\bX
 
-       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
-       option will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to
+       If you are working with AIX, you may find the -\b--\b-d\bdi\bis\bsa\bab\bbl\ble\be-\b-s\bsh\bha\bar\bre\bed\bd 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--\b-d\bdi\bis\bsa\bab\bbl\ble\be-\b-s\bst\bta\bat\bti\bic\bc instead.
 
@@ -166,10 +168,11 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
            if you are using the Sun Studio/Forte compiler, you may also want
            to set
 
-            CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13"   (SPARC)
-            CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic"          (x86)
+            export CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13"   (SPARC)
+            export CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic"          (x86)
 
        Linux
+            export CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
             export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
 
        HPUX
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
        AIX
             export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
 
-       If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make', then do
+       If you have GNU make installed and it is not called 'make', then do
 
         export MAKE=gmake
         export GNUMAKE=gmake
@@ -196,10 +199,15 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
         gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf -
         cd pkg-config-0.23
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
+       After installing pkgconfig in a custom directory, setting up the corre-
+       sponding environment variable will be helpful.
+
+        export PKG_CONFIG=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/pkg-config
+
        _\bB_\bu_\bi_\bl_\bd_\bi_\bn_\bg _\bz_\bl_\bi_\bb
 
        Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
@@ -208,7 +216,7 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
         gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
         cd zlib-1.2.3
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --shared
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -222,8 +230,8 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         cd $BUILD_DIR
         wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
         gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
-        cd libpng-1.2.10
-        env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+        cd libpng-1.2.18
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -245,10 +253,10 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
        _\bB_\bu_\bi_\bl_\bd_\bi_\bn_\bg _\bL_\bi_\bb_\bX_\bM_\bL_\b2
 
         cd $BUILD_DIR
-        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
-        gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz | tar xf -
-        cd libxml2-sources-2.6.31
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz
+        gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
+        cd libxml2-2.6.32
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -263,7 +271,7 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
         gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz   | tar xf -
         cd fontconfig-2.4.2
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -273,7 +281,7 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
         gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz  | tar xf -
         cd pixman-0.10.0
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -282,12 +290,11 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         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 \
-           --enable-win32=no \
-           CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+           --enable-win32=no
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -297,17 +304,17 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
         wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
         gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz  | tar xf -
         cd glib-2.15.4
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
        _\bB_\bu_\bi_\bl_\bd_\bi_\bn_\bg _\bP_\ba_\bn_\bg_\bo
 
         cd $BUILD_DIR
-        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.gz
-        gunzip -c pango-1.21.1.tar.gz  | tar xf -
+        wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2
+        bunzip2 -c pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
         cd pango-1.21.1
-        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
+        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --without-x
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
@@ -324,13 +331,13 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
        python and tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they
        are included in their current state.
 
-        cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.5
+        cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.7
         ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
         $MAKE clean
         $MAKE
         $MAKE install
 
-       SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build  the perl module for the native perl
+       SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build  the Perl module for the native Perl
        (the one shipping with Solaris) you will need the Sun Forte compiler
        installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bind-
        ings/perl-shared/Makefile while building!
@@ -343,4 +350,4 @@ A\bAU\bUT\bTH\bHO\bOR\bR
 
 
 
-1.3.5                             2008-12-15                       RRDBUILD(1)
+1.3.7                             2009-04-07                       RRDBUILD(1)