INSTALL

   1 How to install BIRD
   2 ===================
   3
   4 $ ./configure
   5 $ make
   6 # make install
   7
   8 Default location for configuration file is /usr/local/etc/bird.conf and
   9 for control socket is /usr/local/var/run/bird.ctl . You can change that
  10 by --sysconfdir and --localstatedir configure options.
  11
  12 To compile current development BIRD source code from Git repository, you
  13 also need Git (to download the source code) and Autoconf (to generate
  14 the configure script and associated files using 'autoreconf' tool):
  15
  16 $ git clone git://git.nic.cz/bird.git
  17 $ cd bird
  18 $ autoreconf
  19
  20 Then continue as in usual installation above.
  21
  22
  23 Requirements
  24 ============
  25
  26 For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries:
  27
  28  - GNU C Compiler (or LLVM Clang)
  29  - GNU Make
  30  - GNU Bison
  31  - GNU M4
  32  - Flex
  33
  34  - ncurses library
  35  - GNU Readline library (2.1 or newer)
  36
  37 For compiling BIRD documentation you also need:
  38
  39  - Linuxdoc-Tools
  40  - LaTeX