prepare for the release of rrdtool-1.2.21

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index 9d6ea83..cf25541 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
+++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
@@ -35,12 +35,15 @@ 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-1.2.12
+ INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.21
 
 Or if you run tcsh:
 
  set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12
+ set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.21
+
+If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
+a different directory!
 
 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
 
@@ -48,13 +51,13 @@ Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
  cd $BUILD_DIR
 
 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
-per-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
+pre-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-1.2.12.tar.gz
- tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz
- cd rrdtool-1.2.12
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.21.tar.gz
+ tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.21.tar.gz
+ cd rrdtool-1.2.21
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
@@ -65,16 +68,45 @@ package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
 
 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
-compile your own copies of the required libraries. Here is how:
+compile your own copies of the required libraries.
+
+=head3 Build Tipps for AIX
+
+If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
+will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
+shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
+instead.
+
+Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
+
+ export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
+ export PERLCC=$CC
+
+(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
+
+=head2 Building Libraries
+
+In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
+Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
+you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
+If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
 
 =over
 
+=item Sun Forte
+
+ CFLAGS="-xO3 -kPIC"
+
+=back
+
+=over 
+
 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
- tar  zxf zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
- cd zlib-1.2.2
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
+ tar  zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
+ cd zlib-1.2.3
  env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
  make
  make install
@@ -87,9 +119,9 @@ drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
- tar zxvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
- cd libpng-1.2.8-config
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
+ cd libpng-1.2.10
  env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
      ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
  make
@@ -98,9 +130,9 @@ the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
 =item Building freetype
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
- tar zxvf freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
- cd freetype-2.1.9
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
+ tar jxvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
+ cd freetype-2.1.10
  env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
      ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
  make
@@ -114,7 +146,7 @@ add the following at the end of the configure line:
 =item Building libart_lgpl
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
  tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
  cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
  env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
@@ -153,16 +185,21 @@ 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-1.2.12
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.21
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
  make clean
  make
  make install
 
+SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build  the perl module for the native perl (the
+one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler
+installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile
+while building!
+
 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
 build has been successful.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
-Tobias Oetiker E<lt>oetiker@ee.ethz.chE<gt>
+Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>