[rrd-users] Re: Installing RRDtool

[Glen Peake]

Just wondering if anyone has a suggested fix for this, as I am also
experiencing the same error while trying to install 'rrds.ppm'.
The error is as follows:
"Error installing package 'rrds.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for
package rrd
s.ppd"
I'm running ActivePerl 5.61, same error on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a and Windows
2000 SP2
I'm using 'rrdtool-1.0.33.tar.gz'..... in the package there is a file called
'NT-BUILD-TIPS.txt' (see copy of text file below)
I'm going to try an older version of rrdtool to see if that works.
Thanks
Glen




'NT-BUILD-TIPS.txt'
Compiling RRDtool on NT ... work in progress
---------------------------------------------------------------
by Tamas Kovacshazy (khazy at mit.bme.hu)
Persisting Problems with the current NT port:
Unfortunately, the RRD perl modules does not work with Perl (ActivePerl)
using the current distribution.
The RRD shared perl module can be compiled after some
modification...

Follow these steps:
0. Install perl if you do not have it!
Visit http://www.ActiveState.com/pw32/ for a complete distribution.
1.	Copy ..\gd1.2\release\gd.lib  to ..\gd1.2\
2.	Copy ..\src\release\rrd.lib to ..\src
3.	perl Makefile.pl

In this step the system complains about something I do not understand. The
error message is the following:
Note (probably harmless): No library found for '-lm'
Is a library missing? But it does not stop with an error...
4.	nmake test (You must have Visual C++ on the machine!)

After these steps it generates the test files (gifs and rrds),
and they seem to be good.

The real problem in the shared perl modul is the following:
I do not know how this installation stuff works. The problem is that the
installation stuff looks for the gd.lib and the rrd.lib in the ..\gd1.2 and
..\src directory. The UNIX compile puts the files into these directories,
but the NT compile does not.
It is all for today,
khazy
Tamas Kovacshazy  E-mail: khazy at mit.bme.hu  
WWW: http://www.mit.bme.hu/~khazy
Technical University of Budapest 
Department of Measurement and Information Systems



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	McClain, Dave [mailto:dave.mcclain at jacobsons.com] 
Sent:	Friday, 28 December 2001 08:52
To:	Rrdtool List (E-mail)
Subject:	[rrd-users] Installing RRDtool

Hello

I am a new RRDtool user, and I am having a problem with the ppm install
command.  I downloaded rrdtool-1.0.28.x86distr.zip, created a rrdtool folder
on my PC and unzipped the file to that folder.  I typed ppm install rrds.ppd
from a command prompt.  

I am getting an error message saying Error installing package 'rrds.ppd' :
Read of ./ failed.  Does anybody know what is causing this problem?

Thank you

Dave


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