I'm trying to install a reasonable young rrdtool onto a HP-UX 11.11, but I'm almost giving up in despair : there's a HP-UX depot in the contribute section of the rrdtool downloads, but that's a very old version. There are very few sites which offer prebuild HP-UX GNU binaries, but the HP-UX porting and archive center is the most well-known. Unfortunately, there are three current versions of HP-UX, spread over 2 architectures, which means that the archive is rather thin. A prebuild recent rrdtool version is unavailable, which implies I get the pleasure of building the thing.


HP-UX carries the css cc compiler, which dislikes rrdtool (or the other way around), so configure is barfing out the following :

configure: error:

Your Compiler does not do proper IEEE math ...

Time to install gcc, but that means installing its dependancies too : libiconv, libgcc and zlib; after a successful gcc installation, time for a new configure run :

# export CC=gcc

# ./configure

[...]

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output file name... 

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

Hmmm, that's weird, let's check out gcc :

# gcc

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/local/lib/libintl.sl

/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

Abort

That's even weirder; why's gcc linked to this library ? Let's double check :

# ldd `which gcc`

        /usr/lib/libc.2 =>      /usr/lib/libc.2

        /usr/lib/libdld.2 =>    /usr/lib/libdld.2

        /usr/lib/libc.2 =>      /usr/lib/libc.2

        /usr/local/lib/libiconv.sl =>   /usr/local/lib/libiconv.sl

        /usr/lib/libc.2 =>      /usr/lib/libc.2

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/local/lib/libintl.sl

/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

But there's a libintl.sl lib in the /opt/gnome/lib dir, hopefully that one can be used :

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/gnome/lib

sh: LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Parameter not set.

# gcc

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/local/lib/libintl.sl

/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

Abort

Damned, HP-UX won't accept the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or $SHLIB parameter; maybe this dirty hack will work :

# ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/libintl.sl /usr/local/lib/libintl.sl

# gcc                                                      

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: libintl_bindtextdomain (code)  from gcc

Abort

/me kicks the server. Bah.
We coped with this crap on Linux 10 years ago. Maybe I'm with the ignorant, but does anyone knows a way out of this mess ? Sun is giving away companion CD's with GNU tools on it, maybe HP does the same ?