X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FREADME-Interix.txt;h=f24f38dd0e91893226a33212642a303fd99d1253;hp=8f5451f1551101fe13a72755372ee2fe509dc6a1;hb=a14eb495b75c8c2a2a32ddb6eecf50dc174f811c;hpb=f1bbc92b391f2dabd8c07234689f4f36207f81c6 diff --git a/doc/README-Interix.txt b/doc/README-Interix.txt index 8f5451f1..f24f38dd 100644 --- a/doc/README-Interix.txt +++ b/doc/README-Interix.txt @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ - ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - - (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton, - alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + http://ngircd.barton.de/ + (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the - terms of the GNU General Public License. - + terms of the GNU General Public License. -- README-Interix.txt -- @@ -20,10 +18,13 @@ Windows Server 2003. SUA is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 -- so ngIRCd should be able to run on all of these platforms. -But please note that the poll() API function is not fully implemented by -SFU/SUA and therefore can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be -the default. Please see section -4.25 for details: +But please note that two things: + +1. Don't use the poll() IO API + +The poll() API function is not fully implemented by SFU/SUA and therefore +can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be the default. Please see + section 4.25 for details: "If you do try to use the poll() API your program will block on the API call forever. You must direct your program to build using the @@ -35,3 +36,9 @@ So when running the ./configure script, you HAVE TO DISABLE poll() support: ngIRCd then defaults to using the select() API function which works fine. +2. Use GNU make(1) + +Starting with ngIRCd 18, our build system doesn't work with the default +make(1) binary of Interix, you should use GNU make instead (tested with +version 3.82 built from source). +