Multi-System ToolWorks - PCP 2.5.0 Build Information

PCPMon 1.3.4 Source Overview

The PCPMon 1.3.4 package released by the Multi-System ToolWorks project is the first new PCPMon release since version 1.3.3 by Michal Kara in 2001. Details of the individual changes can be found by visiting the CVS module links below. In general, the changes are:

Ported to MacOS X.
Added help menu items linking to additional web documentation.
Fixed autotools build process.
Fixed several runtime hangs and crashes.
Added several loadable config files for easily displaying common metric graphs.

Source Code Repository

Source code access instructions can be found at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=152398 - for the Multi-System ToolWorks project's CVS repository at SourceForge. The following table itemizes the SourceForge CVS modules that comprise PCPMon 1.3.4. The gtk, gdk, and glib modules are only needed for building pcpmon on MacOSX.

Item	CVS Modules	Tag
PCPMon 1.3.4	pcpmon	pcpmon-branch_macdev_alpha-c
	gtk	gtk-branch_macdev_alpha-a
	gdk	gdk-branch_macdev_alpha-a
	glib	glib-branch_macdev_alpha-a

Getting the Source

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/reliable
cvs login
cvs -z3 co -r pcpmon-branch_macdev_alpha-c pcpmon
cvs -z3 co -r gtk-branch_macdev_alpha-c gtk
cvs -z3 co -r gdk-branch_macdev_alpha-c gdk
cvs -z3 co -r glib-branch_macdev_alpha-c glib

Building on Fedora 4

The following prerequisites are required for building on Fedora 4:

There must be a version of Performance Co-Pilot installed on the Fedora 4 build machine.
gtk+-1.2.10 and glib-1.2.10 from ftp.gtk.org
imlib-1.9.14 from ftp.gnome.org
gtk-engines-0.12 from ftp.gnome.org

Build a PCPMon RPM by:

cd pcpmon
aclocal
autoheader
automake -ac
autoconf
./configure
make
make dist
cp pcpmon-1.3.4.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/pcpmon-1.3.4-1.tar.gz
cp pcpmon.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba pcpmon.spec

You should now have the RPM file pcpmon-1.3.4-1.i386.rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

Building on MacOS X

The following prerequisites are required for building on MacOS X

There must be a version of Performance Co-Pilot installed on the MacOS X build machine.
The CVS modules gtk, gdk, and glib must also be checked out adjacent to pcpmon.

Build a PCPMon application bundle by:

cd pcpmon
aclocal
autoheader
automake -ac
autoconf
Launch Xcode and open the pcpmon.xcode file in the pcpmon directory
Within Xcode, build the target "Everything"

You should now have a PCPMon application bundle in the pcpmon/build directory.