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bird 1.6.8

    1: How to install BIRD 1.x.x
    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 --prefix, --sysconfdir and --runstatedir configure options, e.g.:
   11: 
   12: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --runstatedir=/run
   13: 
   14: To compile current development BIRD source code from Git repository, you
   15: also need Git (to download the source code) and Autoconf (to generate
   16: the configure script and associated files using 'autoreconf' tool):
   17: 
   18: $ git clone https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/ -b legacy
   19: $ cd bird
   20: $ autoreconf
   21: 
   22: Then continue as in usual installation above.
   23: 
   24: 
   25: Requirements
   26: ============
   27: 
   28: For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries:
   29: 
   30:  - GNU C Compiler (or LLVM Clang)
   31:  - GNU Make
   32:  - GNU Bison
   33:  - GNU M4
   34:  - Flex
   35: 
   36:  - ncurses library
   37:  - GNU Readline library
   38: 
   39: For compiling BIRD documentation you also need:
   40: 
   41:  - Linuxdoc-Tools
   42:  - LaTeX