[Orca-users] Linux install problem

[Blair Zajac]

Mike.Kent at indystar.com wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install orca-snapshot-r497 on an i686 box with Fedora 4 
> and "make" appears to break with what looks like rrdtool needs gcc3 
> (Fedora 4 installs gcc 4.0.1 and Perl 5.8.6). Indeed, the rrdtool 
> Makefile includes "depmode=gcc3" in two places.
> 
> Here are the last lines of the "make" attempt:
> 
> ../src/config_aux.h:80:2: error: #error "Can't compile without finite 
> function"
> ../src/config_aux.h:84:2: error: #error "Can't compile without isinf 
> function"
> make[5]: *** [RRDs.o] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/mkent/orca-snapshot-r497/packages/rrdtool-1.0.50/perl-shared'
> make[4]: *** [perl_shared] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/mkent/orca-snapshot-r497/packages/rrdtool-1.0.50'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/mkent/orca-snapshot-r497/packages/rrdtool-1.0.50'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/mkent/orca-snapshot-r497/packages/rrdtool-1.0.50'
> make[1]: *** [make_rrdtool] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mkent/orca-snapshot-r497/packages'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> Any suggestions? rrdtool 1,0.40 can be installed with apt-get, but that 
> won't fix this problem.

You could just install the latest version of rrdtool by hand, as Orca 
will work with it.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.11.tar.gz

I don't include it with Orca due to some reports of performance issues 
with the 1.2.x releases, but these may have since been resolved.

Regards,
Blair