Mac OS X: fix test for packagemaker(1) tool in Makefile

[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 081f3eecd23e3f0f7ab252289c49dd851e4c75cf..60e7b5ebff45488365786aa582ce93f9215070b3 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 
-                      (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton,
+                        (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
 
                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ on modern UNIX-like systems that are supported by GNU autoconf and GNU
 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
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ doc/ directory: sample-ngircd.conf.
 
 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.
 
@@ -149,14 +149,20 @@ standard locations.
   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>]
@@ -238,7 +244,3 @@ These parameters could be passed to the ngIRCd:
 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.
-
-
--- 
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2005/12/30 22:43:23 alex Exp $