NAME

Alien::RRDtool - Installation of Perl bindings to RRDtool

VERSION

This document describes Alien::RRDtool version 0.06.

SYNOPSIS

use RRDs; # see RRDtool documentation

DESCRIPTION

This distribution installs RRDs.pm on perls. The RRDtool package will install RRDs.pm to the system perl, but there're cases we need to install it to perls installded by ourselves.

NOTES: This distribution doesn't install rrdtool itself yet, as other Alien::* dists do, but it does so in a future.

INSTALL

First, you must install the following C libraries which RRDtool depends on:

pkg-config
gettext
glib
xml2
pango
cairo
XQuartz (for MacOSX)

Some of them might be installed by default.

Second, you can install this distribution by cpanm:

cpanm Alien::RRDtool

Then, you can use the RRDs module.

DEPENDENCIES

Perl 5.8.1 or later.

RRDtool depends on pkg-config, gettext, glib, xml2, pango and cairo. You shuould install those libraries by yourself with a package manager.

BUGS

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.

SEE ALSO

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

RRDs

AUTHOR

Fuji, Goro (gfx) <gfuji(at)cpan.org>;

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011, Fuji, Goro (gfx). All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.