[rrd-users] Re: Unable to complie RRD

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today you sent me mail regarding [rrd-users] Unable to complie RRD:

*> Hello all
*> 
*> I'm new to Unix and have been using MRTG on WinNT and bought a Sun
*> Solaris Ultra Sparc 10 to Runn RRD on. However I am having dificulty in
*> getting it to compile. I get this error after running make
*> 
*> # make
*> Making all in cgilib-0.4
*> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/Nettools/rrdtool-1.0.7/cgilib-0.4'
*> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic  -o librrd_cgi.la   cgi.lo  -lm 
*> rm -fr .libs/librrd_cgi.la .libs/librrd_cgi.* .libs/librrd_cgi.*
*> ar cru .libs/librrd_cgi.a  cgi.o 
*> ./libtool: ar: not found
*> make[1]: *** [librrd_cgi.la] Error 1
*> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/Nettools/rrdtool-1.0.7/cgilib-0.4'
*> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*> 
*> I am using the make from Suns page gcc 2.8.1


it seems that libtool can not find ar ... try adding
/usr/ccs/bin/ to your path before you start compiling .. 


*> and the OS is Solaris7
*> when i type perl -V i get
*> 
*> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
*>   Platform:
*>     osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
*>     uname='sunos 5.7 generic_patch sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
*>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
*>     usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
*>   Compiler:
*>     cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.8.1
*>     cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
*>     ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
*>     stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
*>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
*>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
*>     alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
*>   Linker and Libraries:
*>     ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
*>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
*>     libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
*>     libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
*>   Dynamic Linking:
*>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
*>     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'
*> 
*> 
*> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
*>   Built under solaris
*>   Compiled at Jun 27 1999 20:12:35
*>   @INC:
*>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
*>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
*>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
*>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
*> 
*> If this helps
*> 
*> I have tried installing various libarys and get similar problems when
*> running make.
*> 
*> I know its probably a Unix Libary problem but could some one please tell
*> me what I need to do or install to get this to work.
*> 
*> Or even better still does some one have a precompiled version or know of
*> where to get one.
*> 
*> All help greatfully appreciated
*> 
*> Shaun
*> 
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