Hi, I'm new to LinuxQuestions and this is my first post. I'm trying to build rrdtool to install Cacti and encountered the following problem:

'make' step returns an error messages:
What I have done

1. Download and build the latest version of pkg-config, glib, pixman, cairo, pango, atk, gtk+ from official sites.
2. Download rrdtool source
3. Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH correctly
4. untar the rrdtool tarball, cd inside the folder
5. Code:

   ./configure --disable-tcl

   doesn't seem to produce an error message
6. Code:

   make

   and the error message occur

There is actually another problem with the computer which is "The Nautilus application has quit unexpectedly" everytime I open File Browser application or right-click>Properties a file/directory. This happen only after installing cairo and pango and I don't know how to revert to old version.

Since there are a lot of log files so I'm very confused. Can someone give me a direction on how to resolve this?

Welcome to LQ.

The Gnome / Nautilus "system packages" are :
atk-1.8.0
glib2-2-4-7
gtk2-2.4.13
pango-1.6
They are always installed by default,
.. are dependencies for Gnome / Nautilus.
And if you change any of those, do not expect everything
to work. You are just lucky, that some Gnome still works.
( Changing the libs : 500 application depends on those four,
and should also be recompiled, all 500 ! )

The standard way : install the development packages with
up2date using the package manager or the command line :
atk-devel glib2-devel gtk2-devel pango-devel


rrdtool + cacti for EL4 is in the epel.repo ( rrdtool-1.2.27-3.el4 )
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
You can install 'yum' from the epel.repo too ..
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...el4.noarch.rpm
> > yum-2.4.3-0.5.el4.noarch.rpm
.. And thus use this easy tool for package install :
# yum install rrdtool cacti
Provides cacti-0.8.7e-3.el4.noarch.rpm →
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...el4.noarch.rpm
.....

1 members found this post helpful.

Thank you for your reply. I'll try it and see if it work.

Luckily I didn't inistalled new version of the 4 packages libs in /usr, but in another directory, so now I just remove the link from ldconfig path and Gnome/Nautilus are back working nicely.

And thanks for the information. Silly me, I wasn't aware of epel repo. Now I have installed rrdtool, cacti and spine. They are still having a little bit of trouble but I think I'll try googling to make an attempt to solve them first before asking in a new thread.

Once again, thanks.