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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 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
75 and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
76
77 On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
78 OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot find
79 OpenSSL, you 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 * --with-nicklen,
95 --with-topiclen - Respectively, sets the maximum NICK length and
96 maximum TOPIC length. Note that this must be consistent across your
97 entire network. Defaults are 9 and 120, respectively.
98
99
100
101 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
102
103 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
104 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
105
106 5. If you wish to install the contrib modules, run 'make install' in the
107 contrib/ folder to compile and install the modules and help pages.
108
109 6. If you are upgrading from Hybrid 5 or Hybrid 6, the config files
110 have changed drastically.
111
112 By default, the kline file is named kline.conf, the dline file is
113 named dline.conf, and the xline file is called xline.conf.
114
115 The nick resv file is named nresv.conf, channel resv file is named
116 cresv.conf.
117
118 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
119
120 HOW TO GET HELP
121
122 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! You're on your own for
123 support. Try asking other ircd-hybrid admins on EFnet if you can't
124 fix it yourself. If you do fix anything, however, please send context
125 or unified diffs to bugs@ircd-hybrid.org so the fixes can be
126 incorporated into the next release of ircd-hybrid. If hybrid crashes
127 on you, PLEASE contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org ASAP with a backtrace of
128 the core. The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
129
130 - https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid
131 Here you can subscribe to a mailing list for general discussion of Hybrid.
132
133 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
134
135 NOTES
136
137 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
138 instructions:
139
140 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
141
142 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
143 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
144 directory)
145
146 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
147
148
149 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
150
151 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
152 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
153
154 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
155 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
156 provides.

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