Building with gcc is not supported, unless gcc is the vendor's usual
compiler (e.g. the various BSD systems, Linux).
- Parts of the library can be tested by running "make test" from the
- bin/tests subdirectory.
+ A limited test suite can be run with "make test". Many of
+ the tests require you to configure a set of virtual IP addresses
+ on your system, and some require Perl; see bin/tests/system/README
+ for details.
Documentation
The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the
- source distribution in HTML and plain text format, in the
- doc/arm directory. A PDF version can be downloaded separately
- at <http://www.nominum.com/resources/>.
+ source distribution in DocBook XML and HTML format, in the
+ doc/arm directory.
Some of the programs in the BIND 9 distribution have man pages
under the doc/man directory. In particular, the command line
options of "named" are documented in doc/man/bind/named.8.
+ There is now also a set of man pages for the lwres library.
The man pages are currently not installed automatically by
"make install".