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Committed: Sun Jan 13 09:31:46 2013 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by michael
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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    
20     ***** EFNET NOTE *****
21 michael 1402 You should use the example.efnet.conf instead of example.conf.
22 adx 30 **********************
23    
24     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
25    
26     HOW TO BUILD
27    
28     As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
29     Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
30     ircd-hybrid.
31    
32 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
33 michael 1314 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, doc/example.conf, and
34 michael 1138 README.
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36 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
37 michael 1227 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
38 adx 30 with the --prefix option to configure.
39     /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
40    
41     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
42    
43     The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
44     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
45     undefined results:
46    
47     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
48 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
49 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
50    
51     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
52 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
53 adx 30 option.
54    
55 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
56 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
57     later.
58    
59 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
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61 michael 925 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
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63 michael 925 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
64     detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
65     enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
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67     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
68 michael 1548 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
69     and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
70    
71     On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
72     OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot find
73     OpenSSL, you must specify a path with this option
74 adx 30 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
75    
76 michael 925
77 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
78    
79 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
80 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
81 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
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83 michael 1663 * --enable-debugging - Prepares Makefiles to compile the ircd sources
84     with proper settings that are required for debugging purposes.
85     This switch basically sets CFLAGS to "-g -O0".
86    
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     * --with-nicklen,
93 michael 925 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
94     maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
95     entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
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97    
98    
99     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
100    
101 michael 1138 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
102 adx 30 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
103    
104     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
105    
106     HOW TO GET HELP
107    
108     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
109     support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
110     fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
111     or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
112     incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
113     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
114     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
115    
116     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
117     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
118    
119     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
120    
121     NOTES
122    
123     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
124     instructions:
125    
126     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
127    
128 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
129 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
130     directory)
131    
132     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
133    
134    
135     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
136    
137     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
138     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
139    
140     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
141     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
142     provides.

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