Installation Instructions ************************* Dependencies ============ * APR (http://apr.apache.org/) * libConfuse (http://www.nongnu.org/confuse/) * expat (http://expat.sourceforge.net/) * python (http://www.python.org/) * PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/) * RRDtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) Basic Installation ================== Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should configure, build, and install this package. The use of a GNU build chain (Make and C compiler) is encouraged but not compulsory. Compilers and Options ===================== Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for details on some of the pertinent environment variables. You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here is an example: ./configure CC="gcc -std=gnu99" CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix Optional Features ================= support for python as a metric scripting language is optional and could be disabled by using : --disable-python the PCRE dependency is only needed to allow for the use of templates to define metric names using "name_match" in gmond.conf and could be disabled by using : --without-libpcre gmetad is only needed to be able to generate reports and summary of the metric data collected and so will only be built if explicitally requested with : --with-gmetad for more details in some of the flags available refer to the README and the ouput of : ./configure --help