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# User Rev Content
1 adx 30 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2    
3 knight 31 $Id$
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5 michael 1292 Copyright (c) 1997-2012 IRCD-Hybrid Development Team
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7     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
8    
9     +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
10     | Note for those who don't bother reading docs: |
11     | |
12     | Reading INSTALL is now a must, as the old DPATH is now specified when |
13     | configure is run. |
14     | |
15     | - You now need to ./configure --prefix="/path/to/install/it" as a |
16     | minimum. Try ./configure --help or read this file for more info on |
17     | the possible options you can pass to configure. |
18     | |
19 michael 1434 | - Important: The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see point 6! |
20 adx 30 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21    
22     ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23 michael 1402 You should use the example.efnet.conf instead of example.conf.
24 adx 30 **********************
25    
26     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
27    
28     HOW TO BUILD
29    
30     As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
31     Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
32     ircd-hybrid.
33    
34 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
35 michael 1314 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, doc/example.conf, and
36 michael 1138 README.
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38 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
39 michael 1227 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
40 adx 30 with the --prefix option to configure.
41     /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
42    
43     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
44    
45     The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
46     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
47     undefined results:
48    
49     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
50 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
51 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
52    
53     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
54 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
55 adx 30 option.
56    
57 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
58 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
59     later.
60    
61 adx 30 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
62 michael 925 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
63 adx 30 versions or later.
64    
65 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
66 adx 30
67 michael 925 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
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69 michael 925 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
70     detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
71     enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
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73     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
74     This will allow CHALLENGE to work and encrypted links. On systems
75     where the configure script can automatically detect OpenSSL, this
76 michael 925 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
77 adx 30 must specify a path with this option
78     (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
79    
80 michael 925
81 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
82    
83 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
84 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
85 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
86 adx 30
87 michael 925 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
88     are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
89     may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
90     set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
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92     * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
93     reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
94     used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
95     on larger networks.
96    
97     * --with-nicklen,
98 michael 925 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
99     maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
100     entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
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102    
103    
104     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
105    
106 michael 1138 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
107 adx 30 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
108    
109     5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
110     contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
111    
112 michael 1292 6. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
113 michael 1138 have changed drastically.
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115     By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
116 michael 1138 named dline.conf, and the xline file is called xline.conf.
117 adx 30
118     The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
119     cresv.conf.
120    
121     The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
122    
123     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
124    
125     HOW TO GET HELP
126    
127     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
128     support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
129     fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
130     or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
131     incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
132     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
133     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
134    
135     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
136     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
137    
138     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
139    
140     NOTES
141    
142     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
143     instructions:
144    
145     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
146    
147 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
148 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
149     directory)
150    
151     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
152    
153    
154     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
155    
156     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
157     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
158    
159     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
160     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
161     provides.

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