![[tokkee]](http://tokkee.org/images/avatar.png){kind=avatar}
diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.txt b/doc/rrdbuild.txt
index 772b259a265833ef252bdda4debf66211bcadb4e..702a54b37ccaa9cbe0ad85930b2405f01daf13e1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdbuild.txt
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.txt
rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
O\bOV\bVE\bER\bRV\bVI\bIE\bEW\bW
- 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
variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.2
+ INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.8
If your _\b/_\bt_\bm_\bp is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that)
you have to choose a different directory!
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries pre-
installed.
- wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.2.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
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
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.
+ again. Below you find some hints on getting your OS ready for compiling
+ RRDtool.
- Additions to this list are welcome. In general rrdtool should work with
+ 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.
@@ -80,17 +80,10 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
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.
-
D\bDe\beb\bbi\bia\ban\bn /\b/ U\bUb\bbu\bun\bnt\btu\bu
Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number of
packages will get added through dependencies.
@@ -98,10 +91,10 @@ I\bIN\bNS\bST\bTA\bAL\bLL\bLI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
G\bGe\ben\bnt\bto\boo\bo
- In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to e\bem\bme\ber\brg\bge\be
+ In Gentoo installing RRDtool is really simple you just need to e\bem\bme\ber\brg\bge\be
r\brr\brd\bdt\bto\boo\bol\bl. 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
+ you fine tune features RRDtool will be built with. Currently the
following USE flags are available:
doc - install .html and .txt documentation
@@ -132,10 +125,10 @@ 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 -\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
+ 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.
- Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C
+ Another hint to get RRDtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C
Compiler:
export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
@@ -284,7 +277,7 @@ 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 \
@@ -293,6 +286,14 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
$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"
+
_\bB_\bu_\bi_\bl_\bd_\bi_\bn_\bg _\bG_\bl_\bi_\bb
cd $BUILD_DIR
@@ -322,10 +323,10 @@ B\bBU\bUI\bIL\bLD\bDI\bIN\bNG\bG D\bDE\bEP\bPE\bEN\bND\bDE\bEN\bNC\bCI\bIE\bES\bS
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
+ python and 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
-1.3.999 2009-06-09 RRDBUILD(1)
+1.4.8 2013-05-23 RRDBUILD(1)