ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+ http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
- alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
-
+ (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- INSTALL --
-
I. Upgrade Information
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Differences to version 17
+
+- Support for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service registration has been
+ removed. The configuration option "NoZeroconf" is no longer available.
+
+Differences to version 16
+
+- Changes to the "MotdFile" specified in ngircd.conf now require a ngircd
+ configuration reload to take effect (HUP signal, REHASH command).
+
Differences to version 0.9.x
- The option of the configure script to enable support for Zeroconf/Bonjour/
automake ("configure") should be no problem.
The normal installation procedure after getting (and expanding) the source
-files (using a distribution archive or CVS) is as following:
+files (using a distribution archive or GIT) is as following:
- 1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using CVS]
+ 1) ./autogen.sh [only necessary when using GIT]
2) ./configure
3) make
4) make install
The first step, autogen.sh, is only necessary if the configure-script isn't
already generated. This never happens in official ("stable") releases in
-tar.gz-archives, but when using CVS.
+tar.gz-archives, but when using GIT.
This step is therefore only interesting for developers.
The Z compression library ("libz") is required for this option.
* IO Backend (autodetected by default):
+ --with-select[=<path>] / --without-select
+ --with-poll[=<path>] / --without-poll
+ --with-devpoll[=<path>] / --without-devpoll
--with-epoll[=<path>] / --without-epoll
--with-kqueue[=<path>] / --without-kqueue
- ngIRCd can use three different IO "backends": the "old school" select()
+ ngIRCd can use different IO "backends": the "old school" select() and poll()
API which should be supported by most UNIX-like operating systems, or the
- more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux 2.6) or kqueue() (BSD) APIs.
+ more efficient and flexible epoll() (Linux >=2.6), kqueue() (BSD) and
+ /dev/poll APIs.
By default the IO backend is autodetected, but you can use "--without-xxx"
- to disable a more enhanced API and force the daemon to use select().
+ to disable a more enhanced API.
+ When using the epoll() API, support for select() is compiled in as well by
+ default to enable the binary to run on older Linux kernels (<2.6), too.
* IDENT-Support:
--with-ident[=<path>]
Include support for IDENT ("AUTH") lookups. The "ident" library is
required for this option.
-* ZeroConf Support:
- --with-zeroconf[=<path>]
-
- Compile ngIRCd with support for ZeroConf multicast DNS service registration.
- Either the Apple ZeroConf implementation (e. g. Mac OS X) or the Howl
- library is required. Which one is available is autodetected.
-
* TCP-Wrappers:
--with-tcp-wrappers[=<path>]
to the daemon, for example by using "/etc/hosts.{allow|deny}".
The "libwrap" is required for this option.
+* PAM:
+ --with-pam[=<path>]
+
+ Enable support for PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules library.
+ See doc/PAM.txt for details.
+
+* SSL:
+ --with-openssl[=<path>]
+ --with-gnutls[=<path>]
+
+ Enable support for SSL/TLS using OpenSSL or gnutls libraries.
+ See doc/SSL.txt for details.
+
+* IPv6:
+ --enable-ipv6
+
+ Adds support for version 6 of the Internet Protocol.
+
IV. Useful make-targets
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Use "--help" to see a short help text describing all available parameters
the server understands, with "--version" the ngIRCd shows its version
number. In both cases the server exits after the output.
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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2005/12/30 22:43:23 alex Exp $