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Revision: 1292
Committed: Sun Feb 12 20:36:27 2012 UTC (12 years, 1 month ago) by michael
Original Path: ircd-hybrid-8/INSTALL
File size: 7190 byte(s)
Log Message:
- remove AX_ENABLE_SYSLOG. This is now obsolete with the new logging subsystem

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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 7! |
20 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21
22 ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23 You should run ./configure with the option '--enable-efnet' to tweak
24 some options to be EFNet based. You must also use the example.efnet.conf
25 instead of example.conf.
26 **********************
27
28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
29
30 HOW TO BUILD
31
32 As of hybrid-4, the distribution uses GNU autoconf instead of the old
33 Config script. You must run ./configure before you can (sanely) build
34 ircd-hybrid.
35
36 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
37 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, etc/example.conf, and
38 README.
39
40 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
41 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
42 with the --prefix option to configure.
43 /usr/local/ircd is the default if no prefix is specified.
44
45 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ircd
46
47 The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
48 your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
49 undefined results:
50
51 * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
52 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
53 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
54
55 * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
56 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
57 option.
58
59 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
60 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
61 later.
62
63 * --enable-rtsigio - Enable the superior Linux RealTime Signal I/O
64 system. This is currently only available on 2.4 Linux kernel
65 versions or later.
66
67 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
68
69 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
70
71 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
72 detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
73 enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
74
75 * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
76 This will allow CHALLENGE to work and encrypted links. On systems
77 where the configure script can automatically detect OpenSSL, this
78 option is not necessary. If configure cannot find OpenSSL, you
79 must specify a path with this option
80 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
81
82
83 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
84
85 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
86 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
87 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
88
89 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
90 are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
91 may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
92 set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
93
94 * --enable-small-net - Tunes the server for smaller networks by
95 reducing the startup memory footprint. This should really only be
96 used for *small* networks, as this tends to be a performance hit
97 on larger networks.
98
99 * --with-nicklen,
100 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
101 maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
102 entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
103
104 * --disable-zlib - Build the ircd without ziplinks support.
105
106
107 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
108
109 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
110 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
111
112 5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
113 contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
114
115 6. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
116 have changed drastically.
117
118 By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
119 named dline.conf, and the xline file is called xline.conf.
120
121 The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
122 cresv.conf.
123
124 The oper motd file is named opers.motd.
125
126 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
127
128 HOW TO GET HELP
129
130 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
131 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
132 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
133 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
134 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
135 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
136 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
137
138 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
139 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
140
141 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
142
143 NOTES
144
145 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
146 instructions:
147
148 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
149
150 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
151 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
152 directory)
153
154 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
155
156
157 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
158
159 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
160 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
161
162 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
163 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
164 provides.

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