RRDBUILD(1) rrdtool RRDBUILD(1)
NAME
rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
DESCRIPTION
Overview
If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
document will give some information on how this is done.
RRDtool relies on services of thrid 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 RRDtool.
This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
Building
Before you start to build RRDtool, 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 vari
ables. Depending on the shell you are using, you can do either
(bash,zsh):
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15
Or if you run tcsh:
set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15
If your /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:
mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
cd $BUILD_DIR
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
pre-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
tar and make are actually GNU tar and GNU make respectively. It could
be that they are installed as gtar and gmake on your system.
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.15.tar.gz
tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.15.tar.gz
cd rrdtool-1.2.15
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
configure complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from
your software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the
-dev 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.
Building on AIX
If you are woking 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 Com
piler:
export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
export PERLCC=$CC
(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
Building Libraries
Building zlib
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.3
env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
make
make install
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 lik
ley) you can 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 $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
tar zxvf libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.10
env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
make
make install
Building freetype
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
tar jxvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
cd freetype-2.1.10
env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
make
make install
If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want
to try to add the following at the end of the configure line:
GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
Building libart_lgpl
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
make
make install
Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since
these are static libraries, you may have to use ranlib to make them
accessible. Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this,
Linux and Solaris will do just fine without since their ar command does
ranlibs job as well.
ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries
and include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on
the shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables
is different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
set IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
setenv LDFLAGS -L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
setenv CFLAGS -O3
If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
CPPFLAGS="$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/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 their current state.
cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.15
./configure --prefix=$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 bind
ings/perl-shared/Makefile while building!
Now go to $INSTALL_DIR/share/rrdtool/examples/ and run them to see if
your build has been successful.
AUTHOR
Tobias Oetiker
1.2.15 2006-07-14 RRDBUILD(1)
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