add solaris hint to bild procedure

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index 0c872be..6bdcb55 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
 Depending on the shell you are using, you can do either (bash,zsh):
 
  BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.11
+ INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12
 
 Or if you run tcsh:
 
  set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.11
+ set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12
 
 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
 
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ per-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
 B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It
 could be that they are installed as B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
 
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.11.tar.gz
- tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.11.tar.gz
- cd rrdtool-1.2.11
+ wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz
+ tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz
+ cd rrdtool-1.2.12
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
@@ -69,25 +69,6 @@ compile your own copies of the required libraries. Here is how:
 
 =over
 
-=item Building cgilib
-
- cd $BUILD_DIR
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
- tar zxf cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
- cd cgilib-0.5
-
-If you are on Mac OSX you want to fix a little header problem here by doing
-
- touch malloc.h
-
-and now you are ready to build
-
- make CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -I."
- mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR/lb/include
- cp *.h $BUILD_DIR/lb/include
- mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
- cp libcgi* $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
-
 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
@@ -149,10 +130,6 @@ will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
 
  ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
 
-Note for OpenBSD users: It seems that libcgi fails to build properly on some
-of these systems. Run F<ar rc libcgi.a cgi.o cookies.o> to get a propper
-library if you find that libcgi.a is only a few bytes in size.
-
 This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
@@ -176,12 +153,17 @@ 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
 their current state.
 
- cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.11
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.12
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
  make clean
  make
  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 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile
+while building!
+
 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
 build has been successful.