prepare for the release of rrdtool-1.2.12

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index 3aed708..9d6ea83 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-1.2.9
+ INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12
 
 Or if you run tcsh:
 
  set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.9
+ 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-1.2.9.tar.gz
- tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.9.tar.gz
- cd rrdtool-1.2.9
+ 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
@@ -125,6 +106,11 @@ the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
  make
  make install
 
+If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
+add the following at the end of the configure line:
+
+ GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
+
 =item Building libart_lgpl
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
@@ -162,15 +148,18 @@ If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
  CFLAGS=-O3
  export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
 
-And finally try building again. We disable the python bindings because it
-seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python setups that
-would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in their current
-state.
+And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
+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 $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.9
- ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python && make clean && make && make install
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.12
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
+ make clean
+ make
+ make install
 
-Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</examples> and run them to see if your
+Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
 build has been successful.
 
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