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1 adx 30 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2    
3 knight 31 $Id$
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5 michael 2962 Copyright (c) 1997-2014 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     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
21    
22     HOW TO BUILD
23    
24     As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
25     Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
26     ircd-hybrid.
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28 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
29 michael 1823 this version. Other good reads are doc/reference.conf, and README.
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31 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
32 michael 1227 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
33 adx 30 with the --prefix option to configure.
34     /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
35    
36     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
37    
38 michael 2345 The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
39     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
40 adx 30 undefined results:
41    
42     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
43 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
44 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
45    
46     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
47 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
48 adx 30 option.
49    
50 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
51 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
52     later.
53    
54 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
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56 michael 925 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
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58 michael 925 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
59     detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
60     enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
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62     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
63 michael 1548 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
64     and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
65    
66     On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
67     OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot find
68     OpenSSL, you must specify a path with this option
69 adx 30 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
70    
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72 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
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74 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
75 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
76 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
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78 michael 1663 * --enable-debugging - Prepares Makefiles to compile the ircd sources
79     with proper settings that are required for debugging purposes.
80     This switch basically sets CFLAGS to "-g -O0".
81    
82 michael 925 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
83     are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
84     may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
85     set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
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87    
88     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
89    
90 michael 1138 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
91 adx 30 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
92    
93     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
94    
95     HOW TO GET HELP
96    
97     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
98 michael 2345 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
99 adx 30 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
100 michael 2345 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
101 adx 30 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
102     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
103     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
104    
105     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
106     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
107    
108     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
109    
110     NOTES
111    
112     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
113     instructions:
114    
115     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
116    
117 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
118 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
119     directory)
120    
121     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
122    
123    
124     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
125    
126     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
127     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
128    
129     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
130     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
131     provides.

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