* make rrd_getopt compile on solaris

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index 4507311..4159d5a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Where you want to install the software.
 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
 
  BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.2
+ INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.3
 
 
 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
 pre-installed. 
 
- wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.4.2.tar.gz
- gunzip -c rrdtool-1.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
- cd rrdtool-1.4.2
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.4.3.tar.gz
+ gunzip -c rrdtool-1.4.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ cd rrdtool-1.4.3
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
@@ -92,10 +92,11 @@ 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
+=head2 Solaris 8/9
 
- --disable-libintl
+Getting NLS to work on old solaris is an open issue ... use 
+
+ --disable-nls
 
 option.
 
@@ -312,6 +313,14 @@ config file.
  $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"
+
 =head3 Building Glib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
@@ -344,7 +353,7 @@ 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-1.4.2
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.4.3
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
  $MAKE clean
  $MAKE