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authorOndrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org>2019-01-03 17:11:56 +0100
committerOndrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org>2019-01-03 17:26:52 +0100
commit4d9049dc1a57ccbf0ff9fa2642282a30e875e9e1 (patch)
tree8d9fd8bfce3ed23a54e77c98c6b51abd65f13e5e /INSTALL
parent470740f97bfa61c3c5c79d6f2d92f2014a119031 (diff)
Doc: README and INSTALL update
Minor cleanups, updates and clarifications. Also removes (incomplete and well-known) build steps from README, as they are better described in INSTALL.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a0b107ef..7bb8ded9 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ $ make
Default location for configuration file is /usr/local/etc/bird.conf and
for control socket is /usr/local/var/run/bird.ctl . You can change that
-by --sysconfdir and --localstatedir configure options.
+by --prefix, --sysconfdir and --runstatedir configure options, e.g.:
+
+$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --runstatedir=/run
To compile current development BIRD source code from Git repository, you
also need Git (to download the source code) and Autoconf (to generate
the configure script and associated files using 'autoreconf' tool):
-$ git clone git://git.nic.cz/bird.git
+$ git clone https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
$ cd bird
$ autoreconf
@@ -32,9 +34,15 @@ For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries:
- Flex
- ncurses library
- - GNU Readline library (2.1 or newer)
+ - GNU Readline library
+ - libssh library (optional, for RPKI-Router protocol)
For compiling BIRD documentation you also need:
- Linuxdoc-Tools
- LaTeX
+
+Note that build scripts for BIRD documentation expects 'nsgmls' from
+James Clark's SP suite, while modern distributions use 'onsgmls' from
+OpenSP suite. It is possible to build BIRD documentation with OpenSP
+tools, but it requires manually tweaking paths in doc/sgml2* scripts.