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# Content
1 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2
3 $Id$
4
5 Copyright (c) 1997-2013 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
20 ***** EFNET NOTE *****
21 You should use the example.efnet.conf instead of example.conf.
22 **********************
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 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
33 this version. Other good reads are doc/example.conf, and README.
34
35 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
36 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
37 with the --prefix option to configure.
38 /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
39
40 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
41
42 The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
43 your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
44 undefined results:
45
46 * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
47 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
48 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
49
50 * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
51 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
52 option.
53
54 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
55 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
56 later.
57
58 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
59
60 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
61
62 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
63 detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
64 enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
65
66 * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
67 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
68 and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
69
70 On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
71 OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot find
72 OpenSSL, you must specify a path with this option
73 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
74
75
76 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
77
78 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
79 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
80 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
81
82 * --enable-debugging - Prepares Makefiles to compile the ircd sources
83 with proper settings that are required for debugging purposes.
84 This switch basically sets CFLAGS to "-g -O0".
85
86 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
87 are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
88 may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
89 set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
90
91
92 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
93
94 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
95 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
96
97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
98
99 HOW TO GET HELP
100
101 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
102 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
103 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
104 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
105 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
106 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
107 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
108
109 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
110 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
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112 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
113
114 NOTES
115
116 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
117 instructions:
118
119 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
120
121 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
122 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
123 directory)
124
125 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
126
127
128 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
129
130 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
131 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
132
133 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
134 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
135 provides.

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