RRDtool 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 RRDtool.
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.
Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.7.2
If your /tmp is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems to do that) you have to choose a different directory!
Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR cd $BUILD_DIR
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries pre-installed.
wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.7.2.tar.gz gunzip -c rrdtool-1.7.2.tar.gz | tar xf - cd rrdtool-1.7.2 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with configure complaining about several missing libraries.
Additions to this list are welcome. In general RRDtool should work with the latest versions of the libraries. The versions listed here are just what was current when I tested this.
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.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
Make sure the RRDtool build system finds your new compiler
export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
doc - install .html and .txt documentation
into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/
perl - build and install perl language bindings
python - build and install python language bindings
ruby - build and install ruby language bindings
tcl - build and install tcl language bindings
rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi
After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them either in make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use and finally run:
# emerge -va rrdtool
Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to manage USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2
Another hint to get RRDtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc export PERLCC=$CC
(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
The above relies on the presence of the pkgconfig program. Below you find instructions on how to compile pkgconfig.
Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS. Unfortunately, the syntax again differs from system to system:
export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/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)
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
If you have GNU make installed and it is not called 'make', then do
export MAKE=gmake export GNUMAKE=gmake
otherwise just do
export MAKE=make
Building pkgconfig
As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build process will be lots of pain and suffering, so make sure you have a copy on your system. If it is not available natively, here is how to compile it.
wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf - cd pkg-config-0.23 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install
After installing pkgconfig in a custom directory, setting up the corresponding environment variable will be helpful.
export PKG_CONFIG=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/pkg-config
Building zlib
Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf - cd zlib-1.2.3 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR 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 CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at the end of lines means that the command is split over multiple lines.
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf - cd libpng-1.2.18 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR $MAKE $MAKE install
Building freetype
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf - cd freetype-2.3.5 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR 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
Building LibXML2
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf - cd libxml2-2.6.32 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install
Building fontconfig
Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/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 $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf - cd fontconfig-2.4.2 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config $MAKE $MAKE install
Building Pixman
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf - cd pixman-0.10.0 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install
Building Cairo
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz gunzip -c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz | tar xf - cd cairo-1.6.4 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \ --enable-xlib=no \ --enable-xlib-render=no \ --enable-win32=no \ CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install
When building on Solaris you may want to do
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
--enable-xlib=no \
--enable-xlib-render=no \
--enable-win32=no \
CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
Building Glib
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz | tar xf - cd glib-2.15.4 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" $MAKE $MAKE install
Building Pango
cd $BUILD_DIR wget https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 bunzip2 -c pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf - cd pango-1.21.1 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x $MAKE $MAKE install
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 $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.7.2 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --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 $INSTALL_DIR/share/rrdtool/examples/ and run them to see if your build has been successful.