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1 Smartmontools installation instructions
2 =======================================
3
4 $Id: INSTALL 3537 2012-04-28 13:22:41Z chrfranke $
5
6 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
7 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
8
9 Table of contents:
10
11 [1] System requirements
12 [2] Installing from SVN
13 [3] Installing from source tarball
14 [4] Guidelines for different Linux distributions
15 [5] Guidelines for FreeBSD
16 [6] Guidelines for Darwin
17 [7] Guidelines for NetBSD
18 [8] Guidelines for Solaris
19 [9] Guidelines for Cygwin
20 [10] Guidelines for Windows
21 [11] Guidelines for OS/2, eComStation
22 [12] Guidelines for OpenBSD
23 [13] Comments
24 [14] Detailed description of ./configure options
25
26 [1] System requirements
27 =======================
28
29 A) Linux
30
31 Any Linux distribution will support smartmontools if it has a
32 kernel version greater than or equal to 2.2.14. So any recent
33 Linux distribution should support smartmontools.
34
35 There are two parts of smartmontools that may require a patched or
36 nonstandard kernel:
37
38 (1) To get the ATA RETURN SMART STATUS command, the kernel needs
39 to support the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl().
40
41 (2) To run Selective Self-tests, the kernel needs to support the
42 HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl().
43
44 If your kernel does not support one or both of these ioctls, then
45 smartmontools will "mostly" work. The things that don't work will
46 give you harmless warning messages.
47
48 For item (1) above, any 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel will provide
49 HDIO_DRIVE_TASK support. Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also
50 provide this support IF they're properly patched and
51 configured. [Andre Hedrick's IDE patches may be found at
52 http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.20/
53 or are available from your local kernel.org mirror. They are not
54 updated for 2.2.21 or later, and may contain a few bugs.].
55 If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL
56 exists in your 2.2.X kernel source code tree, then your 2.2.X
57 kernel will probably support this ioctl. [Note that this kernel
58 configuration option does NOT need to be enabled. Its presence
59 merely indicates that the required HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is
60 supported.]
61
62 For item (2) above, your kernel must be configured with the kernel
63 configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO enabled. This
64 configuration option is present in all 2.4 and 2.6 series
65 kernels. Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also provide this support
66 IF they're properly patched and configured as described above.
67
68 Please see FAQ section of the URL above for additional details.
69
70 If you are using 3ware controllers, for full functionality you
71 must either use version 1.02.00.037 or greater of the 3w-xxxx
72 driver, or patch earlier 3ware 3w-xxxx drivers. See
73 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/3w-xxxx.txt
74 for the patch. The version 1.02.00.037 3w-xxxx.c driver was
75 incorporated into kernel 2.4.23-bk2 on 3 December 2003 and into
76 kernel 2.6.0-test5-bk11 on 23 September 2003.
77
78 B) FreeBSD
79
80 For FreeBSD support, a 5-current kernel that includes ATAng is
81 required in order to support ATA drives. Even current versions of
82 ATAng will not support 100% operation, as the SMART status can not
83 be reliably retrieved. There is patch pending approval of the
84 ATAng driver maintainer that will address this issue.
85
86 C) Solaris
87
88 The SCSI code has been tested on a variety of Solaris 8 and 9
89 systems. ATA/IDE code only works on SPARC platform. All tested
90 kernels worked correctly.
91
92 D) NetBSD/OpenBSD
93
94 The code was tested on a 1.6ZG (i.e., 1.6-current) system. It should
95 also function under 1.6.1 and later releases (unverified). Currently
96 it doesn't support ATA devices on 3ware RAID controllers.
97
98 E) Cygwin
99
100 The code was tested on Cygwin 1.7.7-1. It should also work on other
101 recent releases.
102
103 Both Cygwin and Windows versions of smartmontools share the same code
104 to access the IDE/ATA or SCSI devices. The information in the "Windows"
105 section below also applies to the Cygwin version.
106
107 F) Windows
108
109 The code was tested on Windows 98SE, ME, NT4(SP5,SP6), 2000(SP4),
110 XP(up to SP3), 2003, Vista and Windows 7.
111
112 -- Windows 9x/ME
113
114 On 9x/ME, only standard (legacy) IDE/ATA devices 0-3 are supported.
115 The driver SMARTVSD.VXD must be present in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
116 to get loaded at Windows startup. The default location in a new
117 installation of some versions of Windows is the WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder.
118 In this case, move SMARTVSD.VXD to WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS and reboot
119 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265854/en-us).
120
121 SMARTVSD.VXD relies on the standard IDE port driver ESDI_506.PDR.
122 If the system uses a vendor specific driver, access of SMART data
123 is not possible.
124
125 Some ATA controllers (e.g. Promise) provided a custom SMARTVSD.VXD
126 for their Win9x/ME driver. To access SMART data from both the legacy
127 (/dev/h[a-d]) and this additional (/dev/hd[e-h]) controller, rename
128 this file to SMARTVSE.VXD. Open the file with a hex editor and replace
129 all occurrences of the string "SMARTVSD" with "SMARTVSE". Then reinstall
130 the original Windows SMARTVSD.VXD.
131
132 To access SCSI and USB devices, an installed ASPI interface (WNASPI32.DLL)
133 is required. The code was tested with Adaptec Windows ASPI drivers 4.71.2.
134 (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/_eol/scsi_sw/ASPI-4.70/)
135 Links to other ASPI drivers can be found at http://www.nu2.nu/aspi/.
136
137 -- Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7
138
139 ATA or SATA devices are supported if the device driver implements
140 the SMART IOCTLs or IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH or IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH.
141 The ATA SMART READ LOG command (smartctl -l, --log, -a, --all) is not
142 supported if only the SMART IOCTLs are implemented.
143
144 SCSI and USB devices are accessed through SPTI. Special driver support
145 is not required.
146
147 3ware 9000 RAID controllers are supported using features available
148 in the Windows driver release 9.4.0 (3wareDrv.sys 3.0.2.70) or later.
149 Older drivers provide SMART access to the first physical drive (port)
150 of each logical drive (unit). If driver support is not available
151 (7000/8000 series, 9000 on XP 64), smartctl can be used to parse SMART
152 data output from CLI or 3DM.
153
154 G) MacOS/Darwin
155
156 The code was tested on MacOS 10.3.4. It should work from 10.3
157 forwards. It doesn't support 10.2.
158
159 It's important to know that on 10.3.x, some things don't work
160 (see WARNINGS): due to bugs in the libraries used, you cannot run
161 a short test or switch SMART support off on a drive; if you try,
162 you will just run an extended test or switch SMART support on. So
163 don't panic when your "short" test seems to be taking hours.
164
165 It's also not possible at present to control when the offline
166 routine runs. If your drive doesn't have it running automatically by
167 default, you can't run it at all.
168
169 SCSI devices are not currently supported. Detecting the power
170 status of a drive is also not currently supported.
171
172 To summarize this, from another point of view, the things that
173 are not supported fall into two categories:
174
175 * Can't be implemented easily without more kernel-level support,
176 so far as I know:
177 - running immediate offline, conveyance, or selective tests
178 - running any test in captive mode
179 - aborting tests
180 - switching automatic offline testing on or off
181 - support for SCSI
182 - checking the power mode [-n Directive of smartd] (this is not
183 completely impossible, but not by using a documented API)
184
185 * Work on 10.4 and later, but not on 10.3:
186 - switching off SMART (switching *on* works fine)
187 - switching off auto-save (but why would you want to?)
188 - running the short test (that leaves you with only the extended test)
189
190 However, some things do work well. For ATA devices, all the
191 informational output is available, unless you want something that only
192 an offline test updates. On many newer Mac OS systems, the
193 hard drive comes with the offline test switched on by default, so
194 even that works.
195
196 H) OS/2, eComStation
197
198 The code was tested on eComStation 1.1, but it should work on all versions
199 of OS/2.
200 Innotek LibC 0.5 runtime is required.
201 Currently only ATA disks are supported, SCSI support will be added.
202
203 [2] Installing from SVN
204 =======================
205
206 Get the sources from the SVN repository:
207 svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
208
209 Then type:
210 ./autogen.sh
211 and continue with step [3] below, skipping the "unpack the tarball" step.
212
213 The autogen.sh command is ONLY required when installing from
214 SVN. You need GNU Autoconf (version 2.50 or greater), GNU Automake
215 (version 1.7 or greater) and their dependencies installed in order
216 to run it. You can get these here:
217 http://directory.fsf.org/project/autoconf/
218 http://directory.fsf.org/project/automake/
219
220 [3] Installing from the source tarball
221 ======================================
222
223 If you are NOT installing from SVN, then unpack the tarball:
224 tar zxvf smartmontools-5.VERSION.tar.gz
225
226 Then:
227 ./configure
228 make
229 make install (you may need to be root to do this)
230
231 As shown (with no options to ./configure) this defaults to the
232 following set of installation directories:
233 --prefix=/usr/local
234 --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin
235 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc
236 --mandir=/usr/local/share/man
237 --docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools
238 --with-exampledir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts
239 --with-drivedbdir=/usr/local/share/smartmontools
240 --with-initscriptdir=auto
241 --with-systemdsystemunitdir=auto
242 --enable-drivedb
243 --disable-attributelog
244 --disable-sample
245 --disable-savestates
246 --with-libcap-ng=auto
247 --without-selinux
248
249 These will usually not overwrite existing "distribution" installations on
250 Linux Systems since the FHS reserves this area for use by the system
251 administrator.
252
253 For different installation locations or distributions, simply add
254 arguments to ./configure as shown in [4] below.
255
256 If you wish to alter the default C++ compiler flags, set an
257 environment variable CXXFLAGS='your options' before doing
258 ./configure, or else do:
259 make CXXFLAGS='your options'
260
261 The first output line of smartctl and smartd provides information
262 about release number, last SVN checkin date and revison, platform,
263 and package. The latter defaults to "(local build)" and can be
264 changed by the variable BUILD_INFO, for example:
265 make BUILD_INFO='"(Debian 5.39-2)"'
266
267 [4] Guidelines for different Linux distributions
268 ================================================
269
270 Note: Please send corrections/additions to:
271 smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net
272
273 Debian:
274 If you don't want to overwrite any distribution package, use:
275 ./configure
276
277 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/):
278 ./configure --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin \
279 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc \
280 --mandir=/usr/local/man \
281 --docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools \
282 --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/etc/init.d
283
284 Red Hat:
285 ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
286 --sysconfdir=/etc \
287 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
288 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools \
289 --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d/init.d
290
291 Slackware:
292 If you don't want to overwrite any "distribution" package, use:
293 ./configure
294
295 Otherwise use:
296 ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
297 --sysconfdir=/etc \
298 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
299 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools \
300 --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d
301
302 And
303 removepkg smartmontools smartsuite (only root can do this)
304 before make install
305
306 The init script works on Slackware. You just have to add an entry like
307 the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.M or /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
308
309 if [ -x /etc/rc.d/smartd ]; then
310 . /etc/rc.d/smartd start
311 fi
312
313 To disable it:
314 chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/smartd
315
316 For a list of options:
317 /etc/rc.d/smartd
318
319 SuSE:
320 ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
321 --sysconfdir=/etc \
322 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
323 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages/smartmontools-VERSION \
324 --with-initscriptdir=/etc/init.d \
325
326 [5] Guidelines for FreeBSD
327 ==========================
328 To match the way it will installed when it becomes available as a PORT, use
329 the following:
330
331 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
332 --docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \
333 --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ \
334 --enable-sample
335
336 NOTE: --enable-sample will cause the smartd.conf and smartd RC files to
337 be installed with the string '.sample' append to the name, so you will end
338 up with the following:
339 /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample
340 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd.sample
341
342
343 [6] Guidelines for Darwin
344 =========================
345 ./configure --with-initscriptdir=/Library/StartupItems
346
347 If you'd like to build the i386 version on a powerpc machine, you can
348 use
349
350 CXX='g++ -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386' \
351 ./configure --host=i386-apple-darwin \
352 --with-initscriptdir=/Library/StartupItems
353
354 [7] Guidelines for NetBSD
355 =========================
356 ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg \
357 --docdir=/usr/pkg/share/doc/smartmontools
358
359 [8] Guidelines for Solaris
360 ==========================
361
362 smartmontools has been partially but not completely ported to
363 Solaris. It includes complete SCSI support but no ATA or 3ware
364 support. It can be compiled with either CC (Sun's C++ compiler)
365 or GNU g++.
366
367 To compile with g++:
368
369 ./configure [args]
370 make
371
372 To compile with Sun CC:
373
374 env CC=cc CXX=CC ./configure [args]
375 make
376
377 The correct arguments [args] to configure are:
378 --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
379 --sysconfdir=/etc \
380 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
381 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \
382 --with-initscriptdir=/etc/init.d
383
384 To start the script automatically on bootup, create hardlinks that
385 indicate when to start/stop in:
386 /etc/rc[S0123].d/
387 pointing to /etc/init.d/smartd. Create:
388 K<knum>smartd in rcS.d, rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d
389 S<snum>smartd in rc3.d
390 where <knum> is related to <snum> such that the higher snum is the
391 lower knum must be.
392
393 On usual configuration, '95' would be suitable for <snum> and '05'
394 for <knum> respectively. If you choose these value, you can
395 create hardlinks by:
396
397 cd /etc
398 sh -c 'for n in S 0 1 2; do ln init.d/smartd rc$n.d/K05smartd; done'
399 sh -c 'for n in 3 ; do ln init.d/smartd rc$n.d/S95smartd; done'
400
401 [9] Guidelines for Cygwin
402 =========================
403
404 Same as Red Hat:
405 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
406 --sysconfdir=/etc \
407 --mandir='${prefix}/share/man'
408
409 OR EQUIVALENTLY
410 ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
411 --sysconfdir=/etc \
412 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
413 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools \
414 --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d/init.d
415
416 Using DOS text file type as default for the working directories ("textmode"
417 mount option) is not recommended. Building the binaries and man pages using
418 "make" is possible, but "make dist" and related targets work only with UNIX
419 file type ("binmode" mount option) set. The "autogen.sh" script prints a
420 warning if DOS type is selected.
421
422 Files may also be checked out with a non-Cygwin SVN client which uses CR/LF
423 for svn:eol-style=native. The "autogen.sh" script has svn:eol-style=LF.
424 Bash option "-o igncr" is not required.
425
426 [10] Guidelines for Windows
427 ===========================
428
429 To compile the Windows release with MinGW gcc on MSYS, use:
430
431 ./configure
432 make
433
434 Instead of using "make install", copy the .exe files into
435 some directory in the PATH.
436
437 Cross-compile statically linked 32-bit version with MinGW-w64:
438
439 ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
440 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 \
441 LDFLAGS=-static
442
443 Tested on Cygwin and Debian Linux.
444
445 Cross-compile statically linked 64-bit version with MinGW-w64:
446
447 ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
448 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
449 LDFLAGS=-static
450
451 Tested on Cygwin and Debian Linux with MinGW-w64 from
452 http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/.
453
454 WARNING: The smartmontools version for 64-bit Windows is still EXPERIMENTAL.
455
456 Cross-compile on Cygwin with old gcc-mingw 3.x:
457
458 ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
459 --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
460 CC='gcc-3 -mno-cygwin' \
461 CXX='g++-3 -mno-cygwin' \
462 CXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -Wall -W -Wno-format'
463
464 Cross-compile on Debian Linux with gcc-mingw32:
465
466 ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
467 --host=i586-mingw32msvc
468
469
470 To build the Windows binary distribution, use:
471
472 make dist-win32
473
474 This builds the distribution in directory
475
476 ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32/
477
478 and packs it into
479
480 ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32.zip
481
482 To create a Windows installer, use:
483
484 make installer-win32
485
486 This builds the distribution directory and packs it into the
487 self-extracting install program
488
489 ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32-setup.exe
490
491 The installer is build using the command "makensis" from the NSIS
492 package. See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ for documentation and
493 download location.
494
495 It is also possible to (cross-)build the installer on Linux.
496 This was successfully tested on Debian with package "nsis".
497
498 To both create and run the (interactive) installer, use:
499
500 make install-win32
501
502 Additional make targets are distdir-win32 to build the directory
503 only and cleandist-win32 for cleanup.
504
505 The binary distribution includes all documentation files converted
506 to DOS text file format and *.html and *.txt preformatted man pages.
507 The tools unix2dos.exe (package cygutils) and zip.exe (package zip
508 or a native Win32 release of Info-ZIP, http://www.info-zip.org) are
509 necessary but may be not installed by Cygwin's default settings.
510
511 The event message file tool syslogevt.exe (see smartd man page) is
512 included in the binary distribution if message compiler (windmc)
513 and resource compiler (windres) are available. This may be disabled
514 by passing 'WINDMC=no' to configure.
515
516 To prepare os_win32 directory for MS Visual Studio C++ 2010 [Express],
517 use the following on MSYS or Cygwin:
518
519 mkdir vctmp && cd vctmp
520 ../configure [... any MinGW option set from above ...]
521 make config-vc10
522
523 The MSVC project files (os_win32/smartmontools_vc10.sln,
524 os_win32/smart{ctl,d}_vc10.vcxproj) are included in SVN (but not in
525 source tarball). The target config-vc10 from a Makefile configured
526 for MinGW creates os_win32/{config,svnversion}_vc10.h from
527 ./{config,svnversion}.h. The configure skript must be run outside
528 of the source directory to avoid inclusion of the original config.h.
529
530
531 [11] Guidelines for OS/2, eComStation
532 =====================================
533
534 To compile the OS/2 code, please run
535
536 ./os_os2/configure.os2
537 make
538 make install
539
540 [12] Guidelines for OpenBSD
541 ===========================
542 To match the way it will installed when it becomes available as a PORT, use
543 the following:
544
545 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
546 --sysconfdir=/etc \
547 --docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \
548 --without-initscriptdir \
549 --enable-sample
550
551 NOTE: --enable-sample will cause the smartd.conf and smartd RC files to
552 be installed with the string '.sample' append to the name, so you will end
553 up with the following:
554 /etc/smartd.conf.sample
555
556 [13] Comments
557 ============
558
559 To compile from another directory, you can replace the step
560 ./configure [options]
561 by the following:
562 mkdir objdir
563 cd objdir
564 ../configure [options]
565
566 Man pages contents is platform-specific by default. Info specific to other
567 platforms may be not visible. To generate man pages with full contents use:
568
569 make os_man_filter=
570
571 To install to another destination (used mainly by package maintainers,
572 or to examine the package contents without risk of modifying any
573 system files) you can replace the step:
574 make install
575 with:
576 make DESTDIR=/home/myself/smartmontools-package install
577
578 Use a full path. Paths like ./smartmontools-package may not work.
579
580 After installing smartmontools, you can read the man pages, and try
581 out the commands:
582
583 man smartd.conf
584 man smartctl
585 man smartd
586
587 /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda (only root can do this)
588 /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda (only root can do this)
589
590 Note that the default location for the manual pages are
591 /usr/share/man/man5 and /usr/share/man/man8. If "man" doesn't find
592 them, you may need to add /usr/share/man to your MANPATH environment
593 variable.
594
595 Source and binary packages for Windows are available at
596 http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/
597
598 Refer to http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Download
599 for any additional download and installation instructions.
600
601 The following files are installed if ./configure has no options:
602
603 /usr/local/sbin/smartctl [Executable command-line utility]
604 /usr/local/sbin/smartd [Executable daemon]
605 /usr/local/sbin/update-smart-drivedb [Drive database update script]
606 /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf [Configuration file for smartd daemon]
607 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd [Init/Startup script for smartd]
608 /usr/local/share/man/man5/smartd.conf.5 [Manual page]
609 /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartctl.8 [Manual page]
610 /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartd.8 [Manual page]
611 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/AUTHORS [Information about the authors and developers]
612 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/CHANGELOG [A log of changes. Also see SVN]
613 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/COPYING [GNU General Public License Version 2]
614 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/INSTALL [Installation instructions: what you're reading!]
615 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/NEWS [Significant bugs discovered in old versions]
616 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/README [Overview]
617 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/TODO [Things that need to be done/fixed]
618 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/WARNINGS [Systems where lockups or other serious problems were reported]
619 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/smartd.conf [Example configuration file for smartd]
620 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/ [Executable scripts for -M exec of smartd.conf (4 files)]
621 /usr/local/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h [Drive database]
622
623 If /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf exists and differs from the
624 default then the default configuration file is installed as
625 /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample instead.
626
627 The commands:
628
629 make htmlman
630 make txtman
631
632 may be used to build .html and .txt preformatted man pages.
633 These are used by the dist-win32 make target to build the Windows
634 distribution.
635 The commands also work on other operating system configurations
636 if suitable versions of man2html, groff and grotty are installed.
637 On systems without man2html, the following command should work
638 if groff is available:
639
640 make MAN2HTML='groff -man -Thtml' htmlman
641
642
643 Some of the source files are prepared for the documentation
644 generator Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/). If Doxygen is installed,
645 the command:
646
647 doxygen
648
649 creates HTML documentation in doc/html and LaTeX documentation
650 in doc/latex. If TeX is installed, the following command creates
651 a documentation file doc/latex/refman.pdf:
652
653 ( cd doc/latex && make pdf )
654
655
656 [14] Detailed description of arguments to configure command
657 ===========================================================
658
659 When you type:
660 ./configure [options]
661 there are six particularly important variables that affect where the
662 smartmontools software is installed. The variables are listed here,
663 with their default values in square brackets, and the quantities that
664 they affect described following that. This is a very wide table: please read
665 it in a wide window.
666
667 OPTIONS DEFAULT AFFECTS
668 ------- ------- -------
669 --prefix /usr/local Please see below
670 --sbindir ${prefix}/sbin Directory for smartd/smartctl executables;
671 Contents of smartd/smartctl man pages
672 --docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/smartmontools Location of the documentation
673 (autoconf >= 2.60 only, see also --with-docdir below)
674 --mandir ${prefix}/share/man Directory for smartctl/smartd/smartd.conf man pages
675 --sysconfdir ${prefix}/etc Directory for smartd.conf;
676 Contents of smartd executable;
677 Contents of smartd/smartd.conf man pages;
678 Directory for rc.d/init.d/smartd init script
679 --with-initscriptdir auto Location of init scripts
680 --with-systemdsystemunitdir auto Location of systemd service files
681 --with-docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/smartmontools Location of the documentation
682 --with-exampledir ${docdir}/examplescripts Location of example scripts
683 --enable-sample --disable-sample Adds the string '.sample' to the names of the smartd.conf file and the smartd RC file
684 --with-os-deps os_<guessed>.o OS dependent module(s)
685 --with-selinux --without-selinux Enables SELinux support. If smartmontools has to create the /dev/tw[ae] device
686 nodes for 3ware/AMCC controllers, this option ensures that the nodes are created
687 with correct SELinux file contexts.
688 --with-libcap-ng --with-libcap-ng=auto Enables/disables libcap-ng support. If enabled and libcap-ng is
689 available, option --capabilities is added to smartd.
690 --disable-drivedb --enable-drivedb Disables default drive database file '${drivedbdir}/drivedb.h'
691 --with-drivedbdir ${prefix}/share/smartmontools Directory for 'drivedb.h' (implies --enable-drivedb)
692 --enable-savestates --disable-savestates Enables default smartd state files '${savestates}MODEL-SERIAL.ata.state'
693 --with-savestates ${prefix}/var/lib/smartmontools/smartd. Prefix for smartd state files (implies --enable-savestates)
694 --enable-attributelog --disable-attributelog Enables default smartd attribute log files
695 --with-attributelog ${prefix}/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog. Prefix for smartd attribute log files (implies --enable-attributelog)
696
697 Please note that in previous versions of smartmontools (<= 5.39) the
698 default for --with-docdir was
699 ${prefix}/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION
700 This was changed to make it consistent with the default of the
701 new --docdir option added in autoconf 2.60.
702
703 The defaults for --with-initscriptdir and --with-systemdsystemunitdir are
704 guessed such that the following rules apply:
705 - If --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc is specified, the guessed directories
706 should be the defaults used by the current OS or distribution.
707 - If --sysconfdir=/etc is NOT specified, the guessed directories should
708 always be below ${prefix} or below ${sysconfdir}.
709
710 Here's an example:
711 If you set --prefix=/home/joe and none of the other four
712 variables then the different directories that are used would be:
713 --sbindir /home/joe/sbin
714 --docdir /home/joe/share/doc/smartmontools
715 --mandir /home/joe/share/man
716 --sysconfdir /home/joe/etc
717 --with-exampledir /home/joe/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts
718 --with-drivedbdir /home/joe/share/smartmontools
719 --with-initscriptdir [see below]
720 --with-systemdsystemunitdir [see below]
721
722 If systemd is present (and pkg-config reports /lib/systemd/system
723 as the systemdsystemunitdir):
724
725 --with-initscriptdir [disabled]
726 --with-systemdsystemunitdir /home/joe/lib/systemd/system
727
728 else if /etc/rc.d/init.d exists:
729
730 --with-initscriptdir /home/joe/etc/rc.d/init.d
731 --with-systemdsystemunitdir [disabled]
732
733 else if /etc/init.d exists:
734
735 --with-initscriptdir /home/joe/etc/init.d
736 --with-systemdsystemunitdir [disabled]
737
738 else if /etc/rc.d exists:
739
740 --with-initscriptdir /home/joe/etc/rc.d
741 --with-systemdsystemunitdir [disabled]
742
743 else
744
745 --with-initscriptdir [disabled]
746 --with-systemdsystemunitdir [disabled]
747
748 This is useful for test installs in a harmless subdirectory somewhere.
749
750 Here are the four possible cases for the four variables above:
751
752 Case 1:
753 --prefix not set
754 --variable not set
755 ===> VARIABLE gets default value above
756
757 Case 2:
758 --prefix set
759 --variable not set
760 ===> VARIABLE gets PREFIX/ prepended to default value above
761
762 Case 3:
763 --prefix not set
764 --variable set
765 ===> VARIABLE gets value that is set
766
767 Case 4:
768 --prefix is set
769 --variable is set
770 ===> PREFIX is IGNORED, VARIABLE gets value that is set
771
772
773 Here are the differences with and without --enable-sample, assuming
774 that initscript location is set and no other options specified
775 (see above for details)
776
777 Case 1:
778 --enable-sample provided
779 ==> Files installed are:
780 /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample
781 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd.sample
782
783 Case 2:
784 --disable-sample provided or parameter left out
785 ==> Files installed are:
786 /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf
787 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd
788
789 Additional information about using configure can be found here:
790 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Running-configure-Scripts