rrdtool complaining about freetype2

trebek · 02-23-2007, 12:25 PM

Hello, i am trying to install rrdtool using ./configure and make and so on and so forth. The problem is this: i get this error message when i am running ./configure:

Code:

checking ft2build.h usability... no
checking ft2build.h presence... no
checking for ft2build.h... no
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: WARNING:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* I could not find a working copy of freetype2. Check config.log for hints on why
  this is the case. Maybe you need to set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS appropriately
  so that compiler and the linker can find libfreetype and its header files. If
  you have not installed freetype2, you can get it either from its original home on

     http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/

  You can find also find an archive copy on

     http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs

  The last tested version of freetype2 is 2.1.10.

       LIBS=-lpng -lz -lart_lgpl_2 -lm
   LDFLAGS=
  CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

configure: error: Please fix the library issues listed above and try again.

I went to the site and downloaded the file for freetype2, installed it using ./configure, make, make install and then make clean. But i get the exact same error here. I also had a few more library dependant issues, but i sorted them out looking them up and installing them using yum or downloading them from their corresponding sites.

Thanks in advance for all the help. An as usual, LQ rules!!!!!!

bathory · 02-24-2007, 08:08 AM

Since you've installed freetype from source using a plain ./configure, then the library is installed under /usr/local. You have to define the following env. variables before running ./configure for rrdtool:

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Quote:

checking for pkg-config... no

You must also install pkg-config because of the above message, or if it's installed make sure it's in your PATH.

trebek · 02-24-2007, 10:46 AM

The export part did not show any errors, so i guess that worked out fine. Now, how do i check on a FC4 installation if that other package is installed?

If i install pkg-config using ./configure, make, make install and make clean, do i have to export some other variables so that the rrdtool can find it? Or freetype2? I ask this because the INSTALL file specifies to install like that, so i guess i need to do the same steps so i can get the other tools to find it.

Ok, update here. i installed rrdtool with ./configure, make & make install, i didn't see any errors and it said it would install to /usr/local/rrdtool. I ran the cacti .rpm file to install it but it said it still requires rrdtool. How come? What am i missing?

Thanks a bunch man, really.

bathory · 02-24-2007, 04:29 PM

Quote:

I ran the cacti .rpm file to install it but it said it still requires rrdtool. How come? What am i missing?

I guess that the software you're trying to install is looking for the various utils of rrdtool you've installed. If it's installed under /usr/local/rrdtool, then you have to export another env. variable, the PATH, so that anyone can find those utils:

Code:

export PATH=/usr/local/rrdtoo/bin:$PATH

If it works you can add those export commands somewhere in your init scripts (or better in /etc/profile) to have them available anytime you restart your box.

trebek · 02-24-2007, 06:48 PM

I would've loved that to work, but it didn't. I did the export you suggested and it displayed the same error, that cacti needs rrdtool. It's really weird because that trick worked when attempting to install rrdtool, but not when trying the .rpm that installs cacti.

Does it matter that i installed rrdtool using the ./configure and all of that instead of the .rpm way that Fedora likes so much? I don't think so, but i've been wrong many times before.

Dude, you rock, thanks for the help. I hope to get this working soon to get this monkey off my shoulders.

bathory · 02-26-2007, 01:56 AM

Since rpms are precompiled binaries, I guess that the rpm looks for rrdtool in a specific place. I suggest you to either install cacti also from source where you can specify the path to rrdtool, or use yum to install all the software from rpms resolving the dependencies problem.