Installing rrdtool 1.3 on slackware
by BenV on Aug.21, 2009, under Software
This keeps bugging me.
Configure fails to build rrdtool because xrender is referenced in the cairo.pc pkg-config file.
However, it doesn’t need it at all. The doc/rrdbuild.txt describes this problem for Opensolaris, but it goes for Slackware as well.
Solution:
root@janeman# perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
Now it -will- run through configure. Thanks. (yeah yeah, it’s hidden in the docs somewhere).
*edit*
This works for rrdtool 1.4 as well.
