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@@ -1,15 +1,40 @@ -If using git (not the tarball), build the "configure" file: - autoreconf --install +INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS -To then build from source: - ./configure - make +1. Generate the configure script. If you downloaded the source from +git you will need to run run autoreconf to generate the configure script +as shown below. If you are building from a tarball you may skip this step. + + $ autoreconf --install + +2. Run the configure script. If you want to alter Kea's installation path, or +need to include capabilities (e.g. enabling MySQL or PostgreSQL) you will need +to specify these as options to the configure script (run ./configure -h for +list of options). + + $ ./configure + +If your environment is missing dependencies, the configure script will exit +with error and should emit sufficient information to guide you on how to +proceed. A detailed account of the configure process is captured in +./config.log. + +3. Build it. Once you've successfully configured the source tree, run "make" to +build it. You may wish to include the -j<n> command line option to specify +parallel execution to speed things along: + + $ make + +4. Install it by running: + + $ make install Kea depends on C++ compiler, make, libtool, boost (at least includes, but many OSes require boost-system library), log4cplus and one crypto library (either OpenSSL or Botan) for compilation. Optional backends (MySQL, PostgreSQL and Cassandra) have additional dependencies. For detailed installation directions, -see the guide at doc/guide/kea-guide.txt or doc/guide/kea-guide.html. +see the guide at doc/guide/kea-guide.txt or doc/guide/kea-guide.html or on +the Kea wiki: http://kea.isc.org/docs/kea-guide.html#installation You can find user-contributed OS-specific build/installation instructions on the Kea wiki: http://kea.isc.org/wiki/Install + |