> -----Original Message----- > From: William R. Lorenz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:35 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Trying to build rrdtool 1.4.1 on RedHat EL4 > > Hi Ulf, > > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, 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: > > The .spec file was designed for RHEL5 and above. The last version of > rrdtool I backported to the RHEL4 platform was the latest in 1.2.x. > > For the 1.3.x and 1.4.x branches, there were just too many dependencies > and version requirements to reasonably compile those properly for > RHEL4. > > > 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. > > The rrdtool sources says that "last tested version of pangocairo is > 1.17." > So, I was perhaps a bit lenient with the pango 1.14 version, but I've > found that it works well. As for the intltool version, I believe that > was > the lowest common denominator in the RHEL5 and above installed > packages. > > There's a thread on rrdtool 1.3.x on RHEL4 here: > > https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-users/2008- > September/014646.html > > however, I'd encourage you to update to RHEL5 for the newer branches.
[Ulf Zimmermann] I wished it were so easy ... I got about 250 or so EL4 machines and upgrading them aint gonna happen any time soon. I was mainly looking at rrdtool 1.4.1 because of rrdcached to be used in conjunction with collectd. Currently we have a large number of virtual machines and running collectd inside of those, each has about 75KB/sec writing due to writing to rrd files. > > Hope this helps, > > -- > William R. Lorenz _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
