INSTALL.quagga.txt

   1 # $Id$
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   4 Building and Installing Quagga from releases or snapshots:
   5
   6 The 'INSTALL' file contains generic instructions on how to use 'configure'
   7 scripts.
   8
   9 Quagga requires a C compiler (and associated header files and
  10 libraries) supporting the C99 standard.
  11
  12 Quagga requires a reasonable make.  It is considered a bug if quagga
  13 does not compile with the system make on recent FreeBSD, NetBSD or
  14 OpenBSD, and a very serious bug if it does not compile with GNU make.
  15
  16 Quagga expects a POSIX.2 compliant system, more or less.  Clean
  17 workarounds for POSIX non-compliance are welcome.
  18
  19 It is considered a bug if Quagga fails to build and run on any of the
  20 following systems (where .x indicates the most recent release), or
  21 such systems "-current" versions.  (Note that considering it a bug is
  22 not a guarantee of support, merely "we agree that it is broken".)
  23
  24   Dragonfly ?
  25   FreeBSD 4.x
  26   FreeBSD 5.x
  27   FreeBSD 6.x
  28   FreeBSD-current
  29   Linux [kernel/distribution information needed]
  30   NetBSD 1.6.x
  31   NetBSD 2.x
  32   NetBSD 3.x
  33   NetBSD 4.x
  34   NetBSD-current
  35   OpenBSD ? [info needed on what should work]
  36   Solaris 9
  37   Solaris 10
  38
  39
  40 For further Quagga specific information on 'configure' and build-time
  41 configuration of the software, please read the Quagga info
  42 documentation, (doc/quagga.info).  To read the info page included with
  43 the Quagga sources without first installing Quagga:
  44
  45   cd doc
  46   # one of the following, depending on your info viewer preferences
  47   info quagga.info
  48   pinfo -r quagga.info
  49   emacs -eval '(info "quagga.info")'
  50
  51 The Quagga website (http://www.quagga.net) currently has the info
  52 files available in various formats.
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  55 Building Quagga from CVS checkouts:
  56
  57 In order to build from CVS, you will need recent versions of several GNU
  58 tools, particularly autoconf, automake, libtool, GNU awk and texinfo.  Note
  59 that the CVS snapshots on the Quagga website should not require these tools;
  60 everything is already setup ready to run 'configure'.  If you have trouble
  61 building from CVS checkout it is recommended that you try a CVS snapshot
  62 instead.
  63
  64 If you are building from plain CVS checkouts, the versions which
  65 should work at least with:
  66
  67         automake:       1.8.5
  68         autoconf:       2.59
  69         libtool:        1.5.6
  70         texinfo:        4.7
  71         GNU AWK:        3.1 [XXX is GNU version really needed?  BSD?]
  72         texinfo         4.7
  73
  74 Becuase some systems provide texinfo 4.6 (4.7 is new), quagga.info is
  75 checked in so that texinfo will generally not be invoked.  When
  76 texinfo 4.7 is widespread, quagga.info will be removed from CVS and
  77 texinfo will become required again.  (4.7 has figure support, needed
  78 for the route server docs, which is why 4.6 doesn't work.)
  79
  80 In order to create PostScript or PDF versions of the Texinfo documentation,
  81 you will need the convert utility, from the ImageMagick toolset installed,
  82 and epstopdf from the TeTeX suite.
  83
  84 To create the required autotools files (Makefile.in, configure, etc.),
  85 run either the 'update-autotools' script provided, or else the
  86 'autoreconf -i' command supplied with your autoconf package.  After this
  87 you may run configure.
  88
  89 Please refer to "Building and Installing Quagga" above for further
  90 instructions.
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  93 Notes on required versions:
  94
  95 The general goal is to use a modern baseline of tools, while not
  96 imposing pain on those tracking stable distributions.  The notes below
  97 explain what versions are present in various environments.
  98
  99 NetBSD 1.6.2 and 2.0 provide texinfo 4.6.
 100 NetBSD 2.99.15 provides texinfo 4.7 (so NetBSD 3 will as well).
 101 NetBSD pkgsrc provides automake 1.9.1 autoconf 2.59 libtool 1.5.6
 102 NetBSD pgksrc provides texinfo 4.7 (devel/gtexinfo)
 103
 104 OpenBSD 3.6 provides texinfo 4.2.
 105 OpenBSD [3.6] ports provides automake 1.4-p6 autoconf 2.5.9 libtool 1.5.8
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