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

[William R. Lorenz]

Hi Ulf,

I'm going to trim some of the reply and top-post, for brevity ...

Are you able to get the rrdtool 1.4.1 fully working from source compile?

If so, is there any helpful info you could share RE the packages and/or 
independent sources you had to install due to pre-existing EL4 versions?

Does it even work from a source compile on a stock EL4 + evolution28 box?

Thanks,

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William R. Lorenz


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

> Using them I continued on trying to build rrdtool. Next stopper was 
> rrd_restore.c wanting to use xmlTextReaderGetParserLineNumber when 
> printing out errors about importing. This function was defined in 
> libxml2 2.6.17, EL4 only has 2.6.16. Got around it by just doing

   [...]

> Continuing on the next hurdle was dejavu-lgc-fonts, which is available 
> on EL5, is noarch but requires fontconfig >= 2.3, I rebuild it for now 
> setting fontconfig requirement to just >= 2.2.

> Now the rpm refuses still to install because of it is looking for 
> libpangocairo-1.0.so.0, which is in /usr/evolution28/lib, but the 
> evolution28 rpms don't add any ld.conf file to point there, so I am 
> still trying to figure out how to teach rpmbuild/rpm to look there for 
> the libs for installing and running. As compiled it does: