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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 michael 1434 | - Important: The old config format WILL NOT WORK. Please see point 6! |
20 adx 30 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
21    
22     ***** EFNET NOTE *****
23 michael 1402 You should use the example.efnet.conf instead of example.conf.
24 adx 30 **********************
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 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
35 michael 1314 this version. Other good reads are BUGS, doc/example.conf, and
36 michael 1138 README.
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38 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
39 michael 1227 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
40 adx 30 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 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
51 adx 30 on FreeBSD 4.1 or higher.
52    
53     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
54 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
55 adx 30 option.
56    
57 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
58 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
59     later.
60    
61 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
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63 michael 925 * --enable-select - Use POSIX select(2).
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65 michael 925 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
66     detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
67     enable select(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-select.
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69     * --enable-openssl - Enable the openssl dependent crypto functions.
70 michael 1548 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
71     and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
72    
73     On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
74     OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot find
75     OpenSSL, you must specify a path with this option
76 adx 30 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
77    
78 michael 925
79 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
80    
81 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
82 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
83 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
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85 michael 925 * --enable-halfops - Enable halfops (%, mode +h) usage. Halfops
86     are similar to plain ops, but can't kick/deop plain ops. Halfops
87     may or may not kick/deop other halfops depending on if (+p) is
88     set. Halfops may not set (+/-p).
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90     * --with-nicklen,
91 michael 925 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
92     maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
93     entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
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95    
96    
97     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
98    
99 michael 1138 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
100 adx 30 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
101    
102     5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
103     contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
104    
105 michael 1292 6. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
106 michael 1138 have changed drastically.
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108     By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
109 michael 1138 named dline.conf, and the xline file is called xline.conf.
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111     The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
112     cresv.conf.
113    
114     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
115    
116     HOW TO GET HELP
117    
118     - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
119     support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
120     fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
121     or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
122     incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
123     on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
124     the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
125    
126     - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
127     Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
128    
129     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
130    
131     NOTES
132    
133     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
134     instructions:
135    
136     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
137    
138 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
139 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
140     directory)
141    
142     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
143    
144    
145     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
146    
147     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
148     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
149    
150     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
151     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
152     provides.

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