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[rrdtool.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index dba9e27..b3631ba 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,8 +14,33 @@ values collected over a definable time period.
 To compile:
 -----------
 
-  sh configure
+  you need the following libraries installed on your system.
+
+   cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
+   freetype-2.1.5.tar.gz
+   libart_lgpl-2.3.16.tar.gz
+   libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz
+   zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
+
+  you can either get these libraries directly from their original sites
+  or you can get copies from 
+
+   http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs
+
+  if the libraries are not installed in standard places you may need
+  to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS accordingly. This will be improved in further
+  editions of this developers series. Here is an example call.
+
+  env CPPFLAGS="-I/scratch/oetiker/cgilib-0.5 \
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/lib/include/libart-2.0 \
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/lib/include \
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/lib/include/freetype2" \
+       LDFLAGS="-L/scratch/oetiker/lib/lib -R/scratch/oetiker/lib/lib \
+                -L/scratch/oetiker/cgilib-0.5" \
+      ./configure --prefix=/scratch/oetiker/rrdtool
+
   make             <------ GNU make
+
   make install     <------ GNU make
 
 This will configure, compile and install RRDtool in
@@ -24,11 +49,6 @@ place, use
 
   sh configure --prefix=/some/other/RRDtool-dir
 
-If you prefer to live with shared libraries, make sure you add the
---enable-shared option to your configure call.
-
-  sh configure --enable-shared
-
 The configure script will try to find your perl installation (5.004
 preferred). If it does not find it, you can still build RRDtool but no perl
 modules will be generated.
@@ -38,13 +58,14 @@ directory. This will require you to use a 'use lib' statement in your
 RRDtool perl programs. If you do not care what happens to your site-perl
 directory, you can also use
 
-  make site-perl-install
+   --enable-perl-site-install 
 
-will install the perl modules whereever you keep your local perl modules.
-Doing this reliefs you from using 'use lib' in your scripts.
+when running configure to have the RRD perl modules installed  whereever you
+keep your local perl modules. Doing this reliefs you from using 'use lib' in
+your scripts.
 
 Configure will also look for an TCL installation on your system. If it finds
-one it will build a TCL interface for rrdtool. If you keep tcl in a non
+one it will build a TCL interface for RRDtool. If you keep tcl in a non
 standard location you can use
 
   sh configure --with-tcllib=/sw/tcl-8.3/lib
@@ -113,7 +134,7 @@ Use GNU   diff --unified --recursive olddir newdir   to build your patches.
 
 The latest Version:
 -------------------
-Is available from http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
+Is available from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
 
 
 Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>