X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=60e7b5ebff45488365786aa582ce93f9215070b3;hp=f4a6ae4d74e66bd7435342c1b8c65a849c3763be;hb=4c113d8850dfc423e3dae2d2f90e7e9a9d42f0b0;hpb=c888c81adf0964e12ae2961550836a52da7c3678 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f4a6ae4d..60e7b5eb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2006 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[=] / --without-select + --with-poll[=] / --without-poll + --with-devpoll[=] / --without-devpoll --with-epoll[=] / --without-epoll --with-kqueue[=] / --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[=] @@ -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 1.24 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $