[Orca-users] Orca build difficulties (rrdtool)

[Blair Zajac]

Jim Dahl wrote:
> 
> I'm having some troubles building orca and am a complete novice in
> these autoconf/automake tools.  I installed gcc 3.2.3 on Solaris 9 and
> built GNU make (3.80), autoconf (2.57), automake (1.7.8), m4 (1.4),
> perl (5.8.1), and libtool (1.5) using that compiler.
> 
> I run ./configure just specifying the HTML dir and a prefix dir.  When
> I run make, it dies while building rrdtool:
> 
> cd rrdtool-1.0.40 && make CFLAGS=""
> make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/orca/0.27/packages/rrdtool-1.0.40'
> cd . && automake --foreign Makefile
> configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using
> aclocal).
> make[2]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/orca/0.27/packages/rrdtool-1.0.40'
> make[1]: *** [make_rrdtool] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/orca/0.27/packages'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> I have no troubles building rrdtool 1.0.45 from source on this machine,
> but cannot get the automated build of the embedded version to work.
> Any tips?

I would just use the 1.0.45 version of rrdtool and not take your time
to figure out why.  Orca is compatabile with that version.  The next
version of Orca will use the latest version of rrdtool.

Best,
Blair

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