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1 adx 30 Hybrid INSTALL Document
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3 knight 31 $Id$
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5 michael 7924 Copyright (c) 1997-2017 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    
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.
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28 michael 918 1. Read the NEWS file to find out about the exciting new features in
29 michael 1823 this version. Other good reads are doc/reference.conf, and README.
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31 michael 918 2. Run the configure script. It will create config.h and the
32 michael 1227 Makefiles to match your system. The paths are now handled
33 adx 30 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 michael 2345 The script will determine whichever of the following is best for
39     your system, but you may (unsupported) force their usage with
40 adx 30 undefined results:
41    
42     * --enable-kqueue - Use the superior kqueue(2) system call as
43 michael 925 opposed to the default poll(2). This is currently only available
44 michael 4370 on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X
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46     * --enable-devpoll - Enable the superior /dev/poll support on
47 michael 925 Solaris. Linux /dev/poll is broken and will not work with this
48 adx 30 option.
49    
50 michael 925 * --enable-epoll - Enables epoll(4) Signal I/O system. This is
51 michael 555 currently only available on 2.5.44 Linux kernel versions or
52     later.
53    
54 michael 925 * --enable-poll - Use POSIX poll(2).
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56 michael 925 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 michael 4333 enable poll(2) instead (bad idea), you must use --enable-poll.
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60 michael 4370 * --enable-openssl - Enable the LibreSSL/OpenSSL dependent crypto functions.
61 michael 1548 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 michael 4333 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 adx 30 (--enable-openssl=/path/to/openssl)
68    
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70 adx 30 These are optional or have default values that may be overridden:
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72 michael 925 * --enable-assert - Enable use of numerous debugging checks. This
73 adx 30 should not be used on any production servers for maximum speed
74 michael 925 so as to prevent cores from things that shouldn't normally happen.
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76 michael 1663 * --enable-debugging - Prepares Makefiles to compile the ircd sources
77     with proper settings that are required for debugging purposes.
78     This switch basically sets CFLAGS to "-g -O0".
79    
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81     3. Run 'make'; this should build the ircd.
82    
83 michael 1138 4. Run 'make install'; this will install the server, modules, and tools
84 adx 30 in the path with the prefix specified when configure was ran.
85    
86     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
87    
88     HOW TO GET HELP
89    
90 michael 5616 - Send Check or Money Order to... just kidding! For bugs, patches or crash
91     reports, contact bugs@ircd-hybrid.org. Please provide as much information
92     as possible, context or unified diffs or backtrace of the core.
93     The Hybrid team can't fix bugs if no one tells us about them!
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95 michael 5616 - For general discussion or support, you can subscribe to our mailing list at
96     https://lists.ircd-hybrid.org/mailman/listinfo/hybrid. Alternatively,
97     you can find us on IRC in #ircd-coders on irc.ircd-hybrid.org.
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99     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
100    
101     NOTES
102    
103     The best way to get a backtrace of the core is to follow this sequence of
104     instructions:
105    
106     1. Change to the directory containing the core file
107    
108 michael 974 2. Run gdb on the binary and the core file. With an unmodified ircd-hybrid
109 adx 30 installation, an example command line is below (in the /usr/local/ircd
110     directory)
111    
112     $ gdb bin/ircd ircd.core
113    
114    
115     3. At the "(gdb)" prompt, enter the command "bt full"
116    
117     4. Save the output of the backtrace command and send it to
118     bugs@ircd-hybrid.org.
119    
120     5. Be sure to save the ircd binary, the modules, and the core file in a
121     safe place in case the developers need to look deeper than a backtrace
122     provides.

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