update build instructions and configure output.

[rrdtool.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index b3631ba..d28600c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ values collected over a definable time period.
 To compile:
 -----------
 
-  you need the following libraries installed on your system.
+you need the following libraries installed on your system.
 
    cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
    freetype-2.1.5.tar.gz
@@ -22,22 +22,25 @@ To compile:
    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 
+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.
+the configure program will try to use the libraries with out adding any extra
+flags apart from the ones defined in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. If this does not
+work it will try to get information from pkgconfig.
+
+If your libraries are not installed in standard places and you do not have
+pkgconfig support, then you may want to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to help
+configure while it tries to find the libraries.
 
   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
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/libs/include/libart-2.0 \
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/libs/include \
+                -I/scratch/oetiker/libs/include/freetype2" \
+       LDFLAGS="-L/scratch/oetiker/libs/lib -R/scratch/oetiker/libs/lib \
+                -L/scratch/oetiker/cgilib-0.5" ./configure 
 
   make             <------ GNU make
 
@@ -47,9 +50,9 @@ This will configure, compile and install RRDtool in
 /usr/local/rrdtool-VERSION. If you prefer to install RRDtool in some other
 place, use
 
-  sh configure --prefix=/some/other/RRDtool-dir
+  ./configure --prefix=/some/other/RRDtool-dir
 
-The configure script will try to find your perl installation (5.004
+The configure script will try to find your perl installation (5.008
 preferred). If it does not find it, you can still build RRDtool but no perl
 modules will be generated.
 
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ directory, you can also use
 
    --enable-perl-site-install 
 
-when running configure to have the RRD perl modules installed  whereever you
+when running configure to have the RRD perl modules installed  wherever you
 keep your local perl modules. Doing this reliefs you from using 'use lib' in
 your scripts.
 
@@ -73,8 +76,8 @@ standard location you can use
 to indicte the right version (note, this must point to the directory where
 tclConfig.sh is located). Note that install will integrate the tcl bindings
 into your tcl installation. It will use a separate directory for each
-version though, so this is not much of a problem. Never the less the TCL
-module will not get intalled by default as TCL wants its module in the base
+version though, so this is not much of a problem. Nevertheless the Tcl
+module will not get intalled by default as Tcl wants its module in the base
 tcl installation where you might not be able to write to. So if you want the
 tcl stuff installed, type