X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=032857268a7ce077eb49c547582d48dbb9331906;hp=47b4c377fc4a50bc3e63d0f64ef0ad5148b1a8ca;hb=a84b9d99a1587c0c9d1fe6f8fda77adb6a6bab47;hpb=fd4a6b5dd5052ab0bb5b52e0b94ec45f1f1e47d5;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 47b4c377..03285726 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -14,9 +14,16 @@ I. Upgrade Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Differences to version 0.6.x + +- Some options of the configure script have been renamed: + --disable-syslog -> --without-syslog + --disable-zlib -> --without-zlib + Please call "./configure --help" to review the full list of options! + Differences to version 0.5.x -- Starting with version 0.6.0, other servers are identified using asyncronous +- Starting with version 0.6.0, other servers are identified using asynchronous passwords: therefore the variable "Password" in [Server]-sections has been replaced by "MyPassword" and "PeerPassword". @@ -39,25 +46,28 @@ files (using a distribution archive or CVS) is as following: 3) make 4) make install + 1): "autogen.sh" 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-archieves, but when using CVS. +tar.gz-archives, but when using CVS. -This step is therefore only interesting for developpers. +This step is therefore only interesting for developers. autogen.sh produces the Makefile.in's, which are necessary for the configure script itself, and some more files for make. To run autogen.sh you'll need -GNU autoconf and GNU automake (in recent versions!). +GNU autoconf and GNU automake (use recent versions! autoconf 2.53 and +automake 1.6.1 are known to work). Again: "end users" do not need this step! -4): "./configure" -The configure-script is used to detect local system dependancies. +2): "./configure" -In the perfect case, configure should recognize all needed libraries, header +The configure-script is used to detect local system dependencies. + +In the perfect case, configure should recognise all needed libraries, header files and so on. If this shouldn't work, "./configure --help" shows all possible options. @@ -65,12 +75,14 @@ In addition, you can pass some command line options to "configure" to enable and/or disable some features of ngIRCd. All these options are shown using "./configure --help", too. -5): "make" + +3): "make" The make command uses the Makefiles produced by configure and compiles the ngIRCd daemon. -6): "make install" + +4): "make install" Use "make install" to install the server and a sample configuration file on the local system. Normally, root privileges are necessary to complete this @@ -79,7 +91,7 @@ overwritten. This files will be installed by default: -- /usr/local/sbin/ngircd: exectable server +- /usr/local/sbin/ngircd: executable server - /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf: sample configuration (if not already present) @@ -95,7 +107,7 @@ targets: - distclean: the above plus erase all generated Makefiles next step: -> ./configure - - maintainer-clean: erease all automatic generated files + - maintainer-clean: erase all automatic generated files next step: -> ./autogen.sh @@ -105,8 +117,8 @@ III. Sample configuration file ngircd.conf In the sample configuration file, there are comments beginning with "#" OR ";" -- this is only for the better understanding of the file. -The file is seperated in four blocks: [Global], [Operator], [Server], and -[Channel]. In the [Gobal] part, there is the main configuration, like the +The file is separated in four blocks: [Global], [Operator], [Server], and +[Channel]. In the [Global] part, there is the main configuration, like the server-name and the ports, on which the server should be listening. In the [Operator] section, the server-operators are defined and [Server] is the section, where the server-links are configured. Use [Channel] blocks to @@ -142,4 +154,4 @@ number. In both cases the server exits after the output. -- -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.10 2003/03/04 13:46:53 alex Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.13 2003/03/09 22:03:58 alex Exp $