[rrd-users] Trying to build rrdtool 1.4.1 on RedHat EL4

[Ulf Zimmermann]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:45 PM
> To: Ulf Zimmermann
> Cc: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Trying to build rrdtool 1.4.1 on RedHat EL4
> 
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> the spec file has not been updated recently ...
> 
> you should not need intltool at all and for pango a lower version
> might do as well ... the problem with pango is that the library is
> under heavy development and apart form new featueres there are also
> important bugfixes going in ... if I remember corectly there were
> several memory management issues which were resolved over time (not
> sure which version). In essence the newer the better, but you
> should be able use older versions to, I am not using any
> particularly fancy features of pango ...

I will set the spec file to the lower versions I got and test around with it. I don't actually need the graphing functions for the EL4 systems, just librrd to write to files or rrdcached to send data to a central collecting server. That server is running FreeBSD and had no problems compiling 1.4.1. Any test I have done there so far look good.

> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> 
> Yesterday Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> > I am looking at building RRDtool 1.4.1 for our EL4 environment.
> Looking the spec file which was included in the source tar of 1.4.1, it
> has certain requirements:
> >
> > Pango >= 1.14
> > Intltool >= 0.35.0
> >
> > Both these are not provided by RedHat in a recent enough version, nor
> are they available in for example rpmforge. Can anyone point me to the
> exact reasons for requiring the above versions? Would it be possible to
> change the .spec to the lower version, which could cause consequences.
> >
> > Ulf.
> >
> >
> 
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