From ecb378b86567096696174a838300e74c0a82d48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:15:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added shared library locations into the docs git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk/program@1253 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- doc/rrdbuild.pod | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod index f364aa2..e783d57 100644 --- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod +++ b/doc/rrdbuild.pod @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there: 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 @@ -74,7 +75,11 @@ 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. +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 @@ -112,7 +117,31 @@ set the following environamen variable 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 -- 2.11.0