This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
-These instructions assume you are using a bash shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
-then you can either type 'bash' to switch to bash for the compilation or if
-you know what you are doing just replace replace the export bits with
+These instructions assume you are using a B<bash> shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
+then you can either type F<bash> to switch to bash for the compilation or if
+you know what you are doing just replace the export bits with
setenv.
We further assume that your copies of B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU
=back
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-1.2.99907080300
-Or if you run tcsh:
-
- set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
- set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
a different directory!
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
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.
+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
+possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to the
+expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
=head3 Build Tipps for AIX
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
+
+Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, you they must further know
+where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAG.
+Unfortunatly the syntax differs from system to system:
+
+=over
+
+=item Solaris
+
+ export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
+
+=item Linux
+
+ export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
+
+=item HPUX
+ export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
+
+=item AIX
+
+ export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
+
+=back
+
If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make',
then do
gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
- $MAKE (or gmake)
- $MAKE install (or gmake install)
+ $MAKE
+ $MAKE install
If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
add the following at the start the configure line:
- env GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
+ env EGREP=egrep
=item Building fontconfig
$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
+ $MAKE install
+
=back
Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
- CPPFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_DIR/include
- LDFLAGS="-R$INSTALL_DIR/lib -L$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
- CFLAGS=-O3
- export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
-
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