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[ngircd-alex.git] / INSTALL

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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,19 +1,22 @@
 
                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+                           http://ngircd.barton.de/
 
-                      (c)2001-2006 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 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/
@@ -51,9 +54,9 @@ 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 +80,7 @@ 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 +152,20 @@ 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>]
@@ -178,6 +187,24 @@ standard locations.
   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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -238,7 +265,3 @@ 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 1.24 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $