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Revision: 1521
Committed: Sun Sep 9 10:41:35 2012 UTC (11 years, 6 months ago) by michael
Original Path: ircd-hybrid-8/INSTALL
File size: 6700 byte(s)
Log Message:
- removed --enable-small-net configure option
- removed unused TOPIC_HEAP_SIZE definition
- decrease DNS_HEAP_SIZE as well as AUTH_HEAP_SIZE

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# Content
1 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2
3 $Id$
4
5 Copyright (c) 1997-2012 IRCD-Hybrid Development Team
6
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 | - Important: The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see point 6! |
20 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21
22 ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23 You should use the example.efnet.conf instead of example.conf.
24 **********************
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 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
35 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, doc/example.conf, and
36 README.
37
38 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
39 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
40 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 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
51 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
52
53 * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
54 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
55 option.
56
57 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
58 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
59 later.
60
61 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
62 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
63 versions or later.
64
65 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
66
67 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
68
69 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.
72
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 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
77 must specify a path with this option
78 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
79
80
81 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
82
83 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
84 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
85 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
86
87 * --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).
91
92 * --with-nicklen,
93 --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.
96
97
98
99 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
100
101 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
102 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
103
104 5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
105 contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
106
107 6. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
108 have changed drastically.
109
110 By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
111 named dline.conf, and the xline file is called xline.conf.
112
113 The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
114 cresv.conf.
115
116 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
117
118 HOW TO GET HELP
119
120 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
121 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
122 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
123 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
124 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
125 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
126 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
127
128 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
129 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
130
131 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
132
133 NOTES
134
135 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
136 instructions:
137
138 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
139
140 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
141 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
142 directory)
143
144 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
145
146
147 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
148
149 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
150 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
151
152 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
153 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
154 provides.

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