rrdtool RDBUILD(1)
NAME
rrdbuild - Instructions for building RDtool
OVERVIEW
If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile
it. This document will give some information on how this is
done.
RDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of
these libraries may already be installed on your system. You
have to compile copies of the other ones before you can
build RDtool.
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 the export bits with setenv.
We further assume that your copies of tar and make are
actually GNU tar and GNU make respectively. It could be that
they are installed as gtar and gmake on your system.
OPTIMISTIC BUILD
Before you start to build RDtool, you have to decide two
things:
1. In which directory you want to build the software.
2. Where you want to install the software.
Once you have decided. Save the two locations into
environment variables.
BUILDIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
INSTALDIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.5
If your /tmp is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems
todo that) you have to choose a different directory!
Now make sure the BUILDIR exists and go there:
mkdir -p $BUILDIR
cd $BUILDIR
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary
libraries pre-installed.
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wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.5.tar.gz
gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.5.tar.gz tar xf -
cd rrdtool-1.3.5
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have
ended with configure complaining about several missing
libraries.
INSTALING DEPENDENCIES
If your OS lets you install additional packages from a
software repository, you may get away with installing the
missing packages. When the packages are installed, run
configure again and try to compile again. Below you find
some hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool
compilation.
Additions to this list are welcome.
OpenSolaris 2008.05
Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:
pkg install sunstudioexpress
pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
There is a problem with cairo.pc on opensolaris. It suggests
that xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is
not true and also bad since opensolaris does not include an
xrender.pc file. Use perl to fix this:
perl -i~ -p -e s/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/ /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler
export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
Since there does not seem to ba a viable msgfmt tool on
opensolaris (short of installing it yourself). You have to
call configure with the
--disable-libintl
option.
Debian / Ubuntu
Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A
number of packages will get added through dependencies.
apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
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Gentoo
In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need
to emerge rrdtool. All dependencies will be handled
automatically by the portage system. The only thing you
should care about are USE flags, which allow you fine tune
features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following
USE flags are available:
doc - install .html and .txt documentation
into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/
perl - build and install perl language bindings
python - build and install python language bindings
ruby - build and install ruby language bindings
tcl - build and install tcl language bindings
rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi
After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them
either in make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use and finally
run:
# emerge -va rrdtool
Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to
manage USE flags:
http:/www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2
BUILDING DEPENDENCIES
But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you
actually have to 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 our expectations, so you may want to compile
their latest versions.
General build tips for AIX
If you are working with AIX, you may find the the
--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 --disable-static
instead.
Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM
XL C Compiler:
export C=/usr/vac/bin/cc
export PERLC=$C
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(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
Build Instructions
Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For
this to work, set the following environment variable
export PKGCONFIGPATH=${INSTALDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
export PATH=$INSTALDIR/bin:$PATH
The above relies on the presence of the pkgconfig program.
Below you find instructions on how to compile pkgconfig.
Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know
where to find each other. This is done by setting an
appropriate LDFLAGS. Unfortunately, the syntax again differs
from system to system:
Solaris
export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALDIR}/lib
if you are using the Sun Studio/Forte compiler, you may
also want to set
CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC)
CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)
Linux
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALDIR}/lib"
HPUX
export LDFLAGS="]b${INSTALDIR}/lib"
AIX
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALDIR}/lib"
If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make',
then do
export MAKE=gmake
export GNUMAKE=gmake
otherwise just do
export MAKE=make
Building pkgconfig
As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build
process will be lots of pain and suffering, so make sure you
have a copy on your system. If it is not available natively,
here is how to compile it.
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wget http:/pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz tar xf -
cd pkg-config-0.23
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building zlib
Chances are very high that you already have that on your
system ...
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz tar xf -
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building libpng
Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a
bit. If you already have a copy of zlib on your system
(which is very likely) you can drop the settings of LDFLAGS
and CPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at the end of line
4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz tar xf -
cd libpng-1.2.10
env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building freetype
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz tar xf -
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$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 EGREP=egrep
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Building LibXML2
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz tar xf -
cd libxml2-sources-2.6.31
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building fontconfig
Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in
INSTALDIR/etc you may want to adjust that so that
fontconfig finds the fonts on your system. Run the fc-cache
program to build the fontconfig cache after changing the
config file.
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz tar xf -
cd fontconfig-2.4.2
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Pixman
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz tar xf -
cd pixman-0.10.0
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Cairo
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz tar xf -
cd cairo-1.4.10
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR \
--enable-xlib=no \
--enable-xlib-render=no \
--enable-win32=no \
CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Glib
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cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz tar xf -
cd glib-2.15.4
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Pango
cd $BUILDIR
wget http:/oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.gz
gunzip -c pango-1.21.1.tar.gz tar xf -
cd pango-1.21.1
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building rrdtool (second try)
Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try
again. This time you tell configure where it should be
looking for libraries and include files. This is done via
environment variables. Depending on the shell you are
running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
different.
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 $BUILDIR/rrdtool-1.3.5
./configure --prefix=$INSTALDIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
$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 $INSTALDIR/share/rrdtool/examples/ and run them
to see if your build has been successful.
AUTHOR
Tobias Oetiker
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