rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-=head2 Overview
+=head1 OVERVIEW
If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
document will give some information on how this is done.
tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It could be that they are installed as
B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
-=head2 Building
+=head1 OPTIMISTIC BUILD
Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+ INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3rc2
If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
pre-installed.
- wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
- gunzip -c rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz | tar xf -
- cd rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3rc2.tar.gz
+ gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3rc2.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ cd rrdtool-1.3rc2
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
-B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
-Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
-software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
-package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
-board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
+B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries.
+
+=head1 INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES
+
+If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software repository,
+you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the packages are
+installed, run configure again and try to compile again. Below you find some
+hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool compilation. Additions to
+this list are welcome.
+
+=head2 OpenSolaris 2008.05
+
+Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:
+
+ pkg install sunstudioexpress
+ pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
+
+There is a a problem with F<cairo.pc> on opensolaris. It suggests that
+xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
+bad since opensolaris does not include an F<xrender.pc> file. Use perl to
+fix this:
+
+ perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
+
+=head2 Debian / Ubuntu
+
+Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
+of packages will get added through dependencies.
-But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
+ apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
+
+=head1 BUILDING DEPENDENCIES
+
+But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually have to
compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
export MAKE=make
-
=item Building zlib
Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
$MAKE
$MAKE install
+=item Building LibXML2
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
+ gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ cd libxml2-sources-2.6.31
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
+ $MAKE
+ $MAKE install
+
=back
Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
their current state.
- cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3rc2
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
$MAKE clean
$MAKE
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