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1 Hybrid INSTALL Document
2
3 $Id$
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5 Copyright (c) 1997-2019 ircd-hybrid development team
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7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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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.
27
28 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
29 this version. Other good reads are doc/reference.conf, and README.
30
31 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
32 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
33 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 The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
39 your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
40 undefined results:
41
42 * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
43 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
44 on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X
45
46 * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
47 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
48 option.
49
50 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
51 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
52 later.
53
54 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
55
56 Incidentally, the order of listing above is the order of auto-
57 detection in configure. So if you do have kqueue but wish to
58 enable poll(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-poll.
59
60 * --enable-openssl - Enable the LibreSSL/OpenSSL dependent crypto functions.
61 Required for the SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, compressed
62 and/or SSL/TLS server links, as well as SSL/TLS client connections.
63
64 On systems where the configure script can automatically detect
65 LibreSSL or OpenSSL, this option is not necessary. If configure cannot
66 find LibreSSL or OpenSSL, you must specify a path with this option
67 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
68
69
70 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
71
72 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This is
73 considered a developer-only feature and should not be used on any
74 production servers for maximum speed so as to prevent cores from
75 things that shouldn't normally happen.
76
77 * --enable-debugging - Prepares Makefiles to compile the ircd sources
78 with proper settings that are required for debugging purposes.
79 This switch basically sets CFLAGS to "-g -O0".
80
81 * --enable-efence - Allows easy linking with the electric fence memory
82 debugger library.
83
84
85 3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
86
87 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
88 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
89
90 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
91
92 HOW TO GET HELP
93
94 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! For bugs, patches or crash
95 reports, contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org. Please provide as much information
96 as possible, context or unified diffs or backtrace of the core.
97 The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
98
99 - For general discussion or support, you can subscribe to our mailing list at
100 https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid. Alternatively,
101 you can find us on IRC in #ircd-coders on irc.ircd-hybrid.org.
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103 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
104
105 NOTES
106
107 The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
108 instructions:
109
110 1. Change to the directory containing the core file
111
112 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
113 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
114 directory)
115
116 $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
117
118
119 3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
120
121 4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
122 bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
123
124 5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
125 safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
126 provides.

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