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 may already be installed on your system. You have to compile copies of the other @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ tar and GNU make respectively. It could be that they a
Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild - INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8+ INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.8
If your /tmp is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose a different directory!
Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ a different directory!Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries pre-installed.
- wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.8.tar.gz - gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.8.tar.gz | tar xf - - cd rrdtool-1.3.8 + 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 configure complaining about several missing libraries.
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ pre-installed.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.
-Additions to this list are welcome. In general rrdtool should work with the +hints on getting your OS ready for compiling RRDtool.
+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.
@@ -136,14 +136,9 @@ bad since OpenSolaris does not include an xrender.pc file. fix this:
perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc-
Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler
+Make sure the RRDtool build system finds your new compiler
export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin-
Since there does not seem to be a viable msgfmt tool on OpenSolaris (short -of installing it yourself). You have to call configure with the
-- --disable-libintl-
option.
In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to emerge
+ In Gentoo installing RRDtool is really simple you just need to emerge
rrdtool. All dependencies will be handled automatically by the portage
system. The only thing you should care about are USE flags, which allow you
-fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
+fine tune features RRDtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
flags are available:
doc - install .html and .txt documentation
@@ -188,9 +183,9 @@ expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
If you are working with AIX, you may find the --disable-shared option will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the -shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with --disable-static +shared libraries into the RRDtool PREFIX and work with --disable-static instead.
-Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
+Another hint to get RRDtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc export PERLCC=$CC@@ -216,14 +211,13 @@ the syntax again differs from system to system: export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
if you are using the Sun Studio/Forte compiler, you may also want to set
- export CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC) - export CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)+ CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC) + CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)
- export CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
After installing pkgconfig in a custom directory, setting up the corresponding @@ -273,7 +267,7 @@ environment variable will be helpful.
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=$INSTALL_DIR --shared + ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -287,8 +281,8 @@ the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
cd $BUILD_DIR wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf - - cd libpng-1.2.18 - ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR + cd libpng-1.2.10 + env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -314,7 +308,7 @@ add the following at the start the configure line:
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf - cd libxml2-2.6.32 - ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR + ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -329,7 +323,7 @@ config file.
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf - cd fontconfig-2.4.2 - ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config + ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -340,7 +334,7 @@ config file.
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf - cd pixman-0.10.0 - ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR + ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -354,9 +348,17 @@ config file.
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \ --enable-xlib=no \ --enable-xlib-render=no \ - --enable-win32=no + --enable-win32=no \ + CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $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"
@@ -376,7 +378,7 @@ config file.
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=$INSTALL_DIR --without-x + ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x $MAKE $MAKE install@@ -388,10 +390,10 @@ files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
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-1.3.8 + cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.4.8 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python $MAKE clean $MAKE