How to install BIRD =================== $ ./configure $ make # make install 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. 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 $ cd bird $ autoreconf Then continue as in usual installation above. Requirements ============ For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries: - GNU C Compiler (or LLVM Clang) - GNU Make - GNU Bison - GNU M4 - Flex - ncurses library - GNU Readline library (2.1 or newer) For compiling BIRD documentation you also need: - Linuxdoc-Tools - LaTeX