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Q: How do I download the source?
Q: How do I compile it?
Q: Why do I get "Build Fails: postgres.h: No such file or directory"
A: OpenNMS needs to have the postgres header files.
On RPM-based distributions, this is usually supplied by the postgresql-devel RPM. Install that before attempting to build.
Q: Why do I get "Failed to initialize JNI RRD interface - undefined symbol: rrd_test_error"
A: Based information from an email to opennms-discuss on Wed 07/04/2004 by Jonathan Sartin:
Most likely librrd.so was not available when you initially built OpenNMS. You can test this by running ldd against libjrrd.so. It should show a dependancy on librrd.so.0.
If not then perhaps you forgot to build rrdtool with the --enable-shared flag (ie. you can't locate librrd.so on your system) or the dynamic linker couldn't find the rrdtool shared library (ldconfig -v | grep librrd). Either way, after you've fixed these problems, you'll need to recompile libjrrd.so:
- Blow away the compiled libjrrd.so in the work/jrrd directory of the opennms source tree.
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./build.sh compile.native.jrrd.unix - run ldd on the new libjrrd.so in work/jrrd/ to check that it has a dependecy on librrd.so.0.
- Copy the new libjrrd.so from work/jrrd into opennms_home/lib
Restart opennms and the problem should go away.
Q: Why do I get ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections?
A: If you're getting this message (likely on Solaris), preceded by a bazillion lines of the form [cc] <unknown> 0x1ec /usr/local/lib/librrd.a(rrd_foo.o), then you need to rebuild rrdtool and libjrrd as described in Jonathan Sartin's answer above.
===Q: Why do I get Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: Unknown CREATE encountered: CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql _call_handler when I try to run bin/install -disU
A: Check your locale settings and make sure LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (Or whatever english locale your system uses).
