New upstream version 6.6

[mirror_smartmontools-debian.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 011622ac358ae950d2902ed5392313767f3faee6..fcffe649b81983d3980fc9430fefd39699c787e4 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Smartmontools installation instructions
 =======================================
 
 Smartmontools installation instructions
 =======================================
 

-$Id: INSTALL 4120 2015-08-27 16:12:21Z samm2 $
+$Id: INSTALL 4574 2017-10-29 15:41:13Z chrfranke $

 
 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
 http://www.smartmontools.org/
 
 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
 http://www.smartmontools.org/


@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Table of contents:
 
     E) Cygwin
 
 
     E) Cygwin
 

-    The code was tested on Cygwin 1.7.15-1.  It should also work on other
-    recent releases.
+    The code was tested on Cygwin 2.9.0-3 x86 and x86_64. It should also
+    work on other recent releases.

 
     Both Cygwin and Windows versions of smartmontools share the same code
     to access the IDE/ATA or SCSI devices. The information in the "Windows"
 
     Both Cygwin and Windows versions of smartmontools share the same code
     to access the IDE/ATA or SCSI devices. The information in the "Windows"


@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Table of contents:
     F) Windows
 
     The code was tested on Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1
     F) Windows
 
     The code was tested on Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1

-    and Windows 10 Release Preview.  Support von Windows 9x/ME and NT4 was
+    and Windows 10 up to 1709.  Support von Windows 9x/ME and NT4 was

     removed after smartmontools 5.43.
 
     ATA or SATA devices are supported if the device driver implements
     removed after smartmontools 5.43.
 
     ATA or SATA devices are supported if the device driver implements


@@ -72,16 +72,11 @@ Table of contents:
     Only the latter provides full pass-through support which is needed
     for all smartmontools features.
 
     Only the latter provides full pass-through support which is needed
     for all smartmontools features.
 

+    SATA devices behind a Intel RST driver are accessed through CSMI.
+

     SCSI and USB devices are accessed through SPTI. Special driver support
     is not required.
 
     SCSI and USB devices are accessed through SPTI. Special driver support
     is not required.
 

-    3ware 9000 RAID controllers are supported using features available
-    in the Windows driver release 9.4.0 (3wareDrv.sys 3.0.2.70) or later.
-    Older drivers provide SMART access to the first physical drive (port)
-    of each logical drive (unit). If driver support is not available
-    (7000/8000 series, 9000 on XP 64), smartctl can be used to parse SMART
-    data output from CLI or 3DM.
-

     G) MacOS/Darwin
 
     The code was tested on MacOS 10.3.4.  It should work from 10.3
     G) MacOS/Darwin
 
     The code was tested on MacOS 10.3.4.  It should work from 10.3


@@ -149,11 +144,9 @@ Table of contents:
     and continue with step [3] below, skipping the "unpack the tarball" step.
 
     The autogen.sh command is ONLY required when installing from
     and continue with step [3] below, skipping the "unpack the tarball" step.
 
     The autogen.sh command is ONLY required when installing from

-    SVN. You need GNU Autoconf (version 2.50 or greater), GNU Automake
-    (version 1.7 or greater) and their dependencies installed in order
-    to run it.  You can get these here:
-    http://directory.fsf.org/project/autoconf/
-    http://directory.fsf.org/project/automake/
+    SVN. You need GNU Autoconf (version 2.60 or greater), GNU Automake
+    (version 1.10 or greater) and their dependencies installed in order
+    to run it.

 
 [3] Installing from the source tarball
 ======================================
 
 [3] Installing from the source tarball
 ======================================


@@ -184,14 +177,21 @@ Table of contents:
     --with-initscriptdir=auto
     --with-exampledir='${docdir}/examplescripts'
     --with-drivedbdir='${datadir}/smartmontools'
     --with-initscriptdir=auto
     --with-exampledir='${docdir}/examplescripts'
     --with-drivedbdir='${datadir}/smartmontools'

+    --with-update-smart-drivedb
+    --with-gnupg

     --with-smartdscriptdir='${sysconfdir}'
     --with-smartdplugindir='${smartdscriptdir}/smartd_warning.d'
     --with-smartdscriptdir='${sysconfdir}'
     --with-smartdplugindir='${smartdscriptdir}/smartd_warning.d'

+    --with-scriptpath='/bin:/usr/bin'

     --without-savestates
     --without-attributelog
     --with-os-deps='os_linux.o dev_areca.o' (platform specific)
     --without-selinux
     --with-libcap-ng=auto
     --without-savestates
     --without-attributelog
     --with-os-deps='os_linux.o dev_areca.o' (platform specific)
     --without-selinux
     --with-libcap-ng=auto

-    --with-working-snprintf
+    --without-nvme-devicescan
+    --without-solaris-sparc-ata (Solaris SPARC only)
+    --with-working-snprintf (Windows: guessed)
+    --with-mingw-aslr=auto (Windows only)
+    --with-cxx11-option=auto

 
     These will usually not overwrite existing "distribution" installations on
     Linux Systems since the FHS reserves this area for use by the system
 
     These will usually not overwrite existing "distribution" installations on
     Linux Systems since the FHS reserves this area for use by the system


@@ -200,10 +200,8 @@ Table of contents:
     For different installation locations or distributions, simply add
     arguments to ./configure as shown in [4] below.
 
     For different installation locations or distributions, simply add
     arguments to ./configure as shown in [4] below.
 

-    If you wish to alter the default C++ compiler flags, set an
-    environment variable CXXFLAGS='your options' before doing
-    ./configure, or else do:
-    make CXXFLAGS='your options'
+    If you wish to alter the default C++ compiler flags, add
+    CXXFLAGS='your options' to ./configure command.

 
     The first output line of smartctl and smartd provides information
     about release number, last SVN checkin date and revison, platform,
 
     The first output line of smartctl and smartd provides information
     about release number, last SVN checkin date and revison, platform,


@@ -215,7 +213,7 @@ Table of contents:
 ================================================
 
 Note: Please send corrections/additions to:
 ================================================
 
 Note: Please send corrections/additions to:

-smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net
+smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de

 
 Debian:
   If you don't want to overwrite any distribution package, use:
 
 Debian:
   If you don't want to overwrite any distribution package, use:


@@ -373,7 +371,7 @@ Same as Red Hat:
 [10] Guidelines for Windows
 ===========================
 
 [10] Guidelines for Windows
 ===========================
 

-To compile the Windows release with MinGW gcc on MSYS, use:
+To compile statically linked Windows release with MinGW gcc on MSYS, use:

 
   ./configure
   make
 
   ./configure
   make


@@ -384,12 +382,10 @@ To compile the Windows release with MinGW gcc on MSYS, use:
 Cross-compile statically linked 32-bit and 64-bit versions with MinGW-w64:
 
   ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
 Cross-compile statically linked 32-bit and 64-bit versions with MinGW-w64:
 
   ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \

-              --host=i686-w64-mingw32 \
-              LDFLAGS=-static
+              --host=i686-w64-mingw32

 
   ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
 
   ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \

-              --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
-              LDFLAGS=-static
+              --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32

 
   Tested on Cygwin, Debian and Fedora.
 
 
   Tested on Cygwin, Debian and Fedora.
 


@@ -438,16 +434,16 @@ To both create and run the (interactive) installer, use:
   The binary distribution includes all documentation files converted
   to DOS text file format and *.html and *.txt preformatted man pages.
 
   The binary distribution includes all documentation files converted
   to DOS text file format and *.html and *.txt preformatted man pages.
 

-To prepare os_win32 directory for MS Visual Studio C++ 2010 [Express],
+To prepare os_win32/vc14 directory for MS Visual Studio C++ 2015 builds,

 use the following on MSYS or Cygwin:
 
   mkdir vctmp && cd vctmp
   ../configure [... any MinGW option set from above ...]
 use the following on MSYS or Cygwin:
 
   mkdir vctmp && cd vctmp
   ../configure [... any MinGW option set from above ...]

-  make config-vc10
+  make config-vc14

 
 

-  The MSVC project files (os_win32/vc10/*) are included in SVN (but not
-  in source tarball). The target config-vc10 from a Makefile configured
-  for MinGW creates os_win32/vc10/{config.h,smart*.rc,svnversion.h}.
+  The MSVC project files (os_win32/vc14/*) are included in SVN (but not
+  in source tarball). The target config-vc14 from a Makefile configured
+  for MinGW creates os_win32/vc14/{config.h,smart*.rc,svnversion.h}.

   The configure skript must be run outside of the source directory to
   avoid inclusion of the original config.h.
 
   The configure skript must be run outside of the source directory to
   avoid inclusion of the original config.h.
 


@@ -457,7 +453,7 @@ use the following on MSYS or Cygwin:
 
 To compile the OS/2 code, please run
 
 
 To compile the OS/2 code, please run
 

-  ./os_os2/configure.os2
+  ./configure

   make
   make install
 
   make
   make install
 


@@ -559,13 +555,14 @@ default then the default configuration file is installed as
 The commands:
 
 make htmlman
 The commands:
 
 make htmlman

+make pdfman

 make txtman
 
 make txtman
 

-may be used to build .html and .txt preformatted man pages.
+may be used to build .html, .pdf and .txt preformatted man pages.

 These are used by the dist-win32 make target to build the Windows
 distribution.
 The commands also work on other operating system configurations
 These are used by the dist-win32 make target to build the Windows
 distribution.
 The commands also work on other operating system configurations

-if suitable versions of man2html, groff and grotty are installed.
+if suitable versions of man, man2html and groff are installed.

 On systems without man2html, the following command should work
 if groff is available:
 
 On systems without man2html, the following command should work
 if groff is available:
 


@@ -594,8 +591,7 @@ a description of available configure options is printed
 [with defaults in square brackets].  See also section [3] above.
 
 
 [with defaults in square brackets].  See also section [3] above.
 
 

-The following old configure options are deprecated and will be removed
-in a future release of smartmontools:
+The following old configure options are no longer supported:

 
 Old option                 Replacement
 --with-docdir=DIR          --docdir=DIR (autoconf >= 2.60)
 
 Old option                 Replacement
 --with-docdir=DIR          --docdir=DIR (autoconf >= 2.60)


@@ -670,4 +666,4 @@ Case 2:
         /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd
 
 Additional information about using configure can be found here:
         /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd
 
 Additional information about using configure can be found here:

-http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Running-configure-Scripts
+https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Running-configure-Scripts