Imported upstream version 1.4.8

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--- a/doc/rrdbuild.1
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.1801 (Pod::Simple 3.08)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.16)
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
 .\" ========================================================================
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "RRDBUILD 1"
-.TH RRDBUILD 1 "2009-06-09" "1.3.999" "rrdtool"
+.TH RRDBUILD 1 "2013-05-23" "1.4.8" "rrdtool"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 rrdbuild \- Instructions for building RRDtool
 .SH "OVERVIEW"
 .IX Header "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.
 .PP
 RRDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of these libraries
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
 .PP
 .Vb 2
 \& BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
-\& INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool\-1.3.2
+\& INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool\-1.4.8
 .Ve
 .PP
 If your \fI/tmp\fR is mounted with the option noexec (\s-1RHEL\s0 seems todo that) you have to choose
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
 pre-installed.
 .PP
 .Vb 4
-\& 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
 .Ve
 .PP
@@ -192,9 +192,9 @@ Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
 If your \s-1OS\s0 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 \s-1OS\s0 ready for the rrdtool compilation.
+hints on getting your \s-1OS\s0 ready for compiling RRDtool.
 .PP
-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.
 .SS "OpenSolaris 2008.05"
@@ -215,20 +215,11 @@ fix this:
 \& perl \-i~ \-p \-e \*(Aqs/(Requires.*?)\es*xrender.*/$1/\*(Aq /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
 .Ve
 .PP
-Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler
+Make sure the RRDtool build system finds your new compiler
 .PP
 .Vb 1
 \& export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
 .Ve
-.PP
-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
-.PP
-.Vb 1
-\& \-\-disable\-libintl
-.Ve
-.PP
-option.
 .SS "Debian / Ubuntu"
 .IX Subsection "Debian / Ubuntu"
 Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
@@ -239,10 +230,10 @@ of packages will get added through dependencies.
 .Ve
 .SS "Gentoo"
 .IX Subsection "Gentoo"
-In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to \fBemerge
+In Gentoo installing RRDtool is really simple you just need to \fBemerge
 rrdtool\fR. All dependencies will be handled automatically by the portage
 system. The only thing you should care about are \s-1USE\s0 flags, which allow you
-fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following \s-1USE\s0
+fine tune features RRDtool will be built with. Currently the following \s-1USE\s0
 flags are available:
 .PP
 .Vb 7
@@ -276,10 +267,10 @@ expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
 .IX Subsection "General build tips for AIX"
 If you are working with \s-1AIX\s0, you may find the \fB\-\-disable\-shared\fR option
 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
-shared libraries into the rrdtool \s-1PREFIX\s0 and work with \fB\-\-disable\-static\fR
+shared libraries into the RRDtool \s-1PREFIX\s0 and work with \fB\-\-disable\-static\fR
 instead.
 .PP
-Another hint to get rrdtool working on \s-1AIX\s0 is to use the \s-1IBM\s0 \s-1XL\s0 C Compiler:
+Another hint to get RRDtool working on \s-1AIX\s0 is to use the \s-1IBM\s0 \s-1XL\s0 C Compiler:
 .PP
 .Vb 2
 \& export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
@@ -472,7 +463,7 @@ config file.
 \& 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 \e
 \&    \-\-enable\-xlib=no \e
 \&    \-\-enable\-xlib\-render=no \e
@@ -482,6 +473,16 @@ config file.
 \& $MAKE install
 .Ve
 .PP
+When building on Solaris you may want todo
+.PP
+.Vb 5
+\& ./configure \-\-prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \e
+\&    \-\-enable\-xlib=no \e
+\&    \-\-enable\-xlib\-render=no \e
+\&    \-\-enable\-win32=no \e
+\&    CFLAGS="\-O3 \-fPIC \-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
+.Ve
+.PP
 \fIBuilding Glib\fR
 .IX Subsection "Building Glib"
 .PP
@@ -516,11 +517,11 @@ are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
 .PP
 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.
 .PP
 .Vb 5
-\& 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