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- - autogen.sh: Prefere automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the
+ - No longer use a default built-in value for the "IncludeDir" directive when
+ a configuration file was explicitly specified on the command line using
+ "--config"/"-f": This way no default include directory is scanned when a
+ possibly non-default configuration file is used which (intentionally) did
+ not specify an "IncludeDir" directive. So now you can use "-f /dev/null"
+ for checking all built-in defaults, regardless of any local configuration
+ files in the default drop-in directory (which would have been read in
+ until this change).
+ - The server "Name" in the "[Global]" section of the configuration file no
+ longer needs to be set: When not set (or empty), ngIRCd now tries to
+ deduce a valid IRC server name from the local host name ("node name"),
+ possibly adding a ".host" extension when the host name does not contain a
+ dot (".") which is required in an IRC server name ("ID").
+ This new behaviour, with all configuration parameters now being optional,
+ allows running ngIRCd without any configuration file at all.
+ - autogen.sh: Prefer automake 1.11 over other releases because this is the
last release supporting "de-ANSI-fication" using the included ansi2knr tool.
- And becuase we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this
+ And because we _want_ to support old K&R platforms, we try hard to use this
release of automake when available to generate our build system.
Note: This is only relevant for you if you are building from Git sources.
- Autodetect support for IPv6 by default: Until now, IPv6 support was disabled