From 964bc67869f2df92c1e3f75cf585693ccb4e0033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jana Babovakova Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:01:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Install comment updated by Maria --- INSTALL | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7a1792844..917b90af0 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,8 +1,17 @@ How to install BIRD =================== +There are packages available for most of the existing distributions, and it is +possibly a cleaner way to install BIRD than manually. + +To install BIRD manually from the source tarball, you need to first build it. + $ ./configure $ make + +After this, you get binaries bird, birdc and birdcl which will run perfectly +from wherever you put them. You can install them to the system paths if you want. + # make install Default location for configuration file is /usr/local/etc/bird.conf and @@ -21,6 +30,10 @@ $ autoreconf Then continue as in usual installation above. +For debugging and development, it's recommended to use the -l flag for BIRD +binaries to use bird.conf and bird.ctl in the current directory, instead of +system-wide installation of an unstable version. + Requirements ============ -- 2.47.2