RRDBUILD(1) rrdtool RRDBUILD(1)
NAME
rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
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 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.
OPTIMISTIC BUILD
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 variables.
BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.8
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 $BUILD_DIR
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries pre-installed.
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.4.8.tar.gz
gunzip -c rrdtool-1.4.8.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd rrdtool-1.4.8
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with configure complaining about several
missing libraries.
INSTALLING 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 compiling RRDtool.
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.
Make sure the RRDtool build system finds your new compiler
export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin
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
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 --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 CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
export PERLCC=$CC
(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
Build Instructions
Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work, set the following environment
variable
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC)
CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)
Linux
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
HPUX
export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
AIX
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 $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --prefix=$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
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=$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 $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz
gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd libxml2-2.6.32
./configure --prefix=$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 $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd fontconfig-2.4.2
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Pixman
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd pixman-0.10.0
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Cairo
cd $BUILD_DIR
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-1.6.4
--enable-xlib-render=no \
--enable-win32=no \
CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
Building Glib
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd glib-2.15.4
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
$MAKE
$MAKE install
Building Pango
cd $BUILD_DIR
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2
bunzip2 -c pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
cd pango-1.21.1
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
$MAKE
$MAKE install
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 $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.4.8
./configure --prefix=$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.
AUTHOR
Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
1.4.8 2013-05-23 RRDBUILD(1)
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