From b2ab7bbbeafe1dd5e123488edb7716d034648e47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:12:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] integrated gentoo bits and spell fixes by Peter Volkov git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk@1393 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- program/doc/rrdbuild.pod | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/program/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/program/doc/rrdbuild.pod index 27259a3b..2d72f0fd 100644 --- a/program/doc/rrdbuild.pod +++ b/program/doc/rrdbuild.pod @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool 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 thrid part libraries. Some of these libraries +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 ones before you can build RRDtool. @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Just add a compiler and the gnome development package: pkg install sunstudioexpress pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel -There is a a problem with F on opensolaris. It suggests that +There is a problem with F on opensolaris. It suggests that xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also bad since opensolaris does not include an F file. Use perl to fix this: @@ -93,6 +93,30 @@ of packages will get added through dependencies. apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev +=head2 Gentoo + +In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to B. 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 +flags are available: + + doc - install .html and .txt documentation + into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/ + perl - build and install perl language bindings + python - build and install python language bindings + ruby - build and install ruby language bindings + tcl - build and install tcl language bindings + rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi + +After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them either in +F or F and finally run: + + # emerge -va rrdtool + +Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to manage USE +flags: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2 + =head1 BUILDING DEPENDENCIES But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually have to @@ -102,9 +126,9 @@ system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to our expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions. -=head3 Build Tipps for AIX +=head3 Build Tips for AIX -If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option +If you are working with AIX, you may find the 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> instead. @@ -134,7 +158,7 @@ If you have an other compilers here are some ides: =over Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work, -set the following environamen variable +set the following environment variable export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH @@ -143,8 +167,8 @@ This relies on the presence of the F program. Below you find instruct on how to compile pkgconfig as well. Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know -where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAG. -Unfortunatly, the syntax again differs from system to system: +where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS. +Unfortunately, the syntax again differs from system to system: =over @@ -172,7 +196,7 @@ then do export MAKE=gmake export GNUMAKE=gmake -otherwhise just do +otherwise just do export MAKE=make @@ -204,7 +228,7 @@ Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ... =item Building libpng Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you -already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can +already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likely) you can drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line. @@ -243,9 +267,9 @@ add the following at the start the configure line: =item Building fontconfig -Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you +Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system. -Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the +Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changing the config file. cd $BUILD_DIR @@ -319,7 +343,7 @@ their current state. $MAKE install 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 +one shipping with Solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while building! -- 2.30.2