added hint for RHEL

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index f741232..31e7ff6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Or if you run tcsh:
  set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
  set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.13
 
+If your F</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:
 
  mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
@@ -65,16 +68,32 @@ package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
 
 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
-compile your own copies of the required libraries. Here is how:
+compile your own copies of the required libraries.
+
+=head2 Building on AIX
+
+If you are woking 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.
+
+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
+
+(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
 
 =over
 
+=head2 Building Libraries
+
 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
  wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
  tar  zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
- cd zlib-1.2.2
+ cd zlib-1.2.3
  env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
  make
  make install