additional AIX hints from zoran.majcenic inet.hr

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdbuild.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
index 2974379..6809cc3 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
 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-1.2.13

 
 Or if you run tcsh:
 
  set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
 
 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-1.2.13

 
 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
 
 
 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
 


@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ 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.
 
 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://oss.oetiker.ch/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-1.2.13.tar.gz
+ tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.13.tar.gz
+ cd rrdtool-1.2.13

  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
 
 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with


@@ -65,10 +65,26 @@ 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
 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.
+
+=head2 Building on 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!)

 
 =over
 
 
 =over
 

+=head2 Building Libraries
+

 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR


@@ -153,7 +169,7 @@ 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.
 
 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-1.2.13

  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
  make clean
  make
  ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
  make clean
  make