Module: ngircd.git Branch: master Commit: a39a1a5273f953c7c25bcb5b89c607444368d072 URL: http://ngircd.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd.git&a=commit;h=a39a1a527... Author: Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de> Date: Wed Feb 29 13:20:09 2012 +0100 doc/README-Interix.txt: note that GNU make should be used --- doc/README-Interix.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/README-Interix.txt b/doc/README-Interix.txt index 8f5451f..f24f38d 100644 --- a/doc/README-Interix.txt +++ b/doc/README-Interix.txt @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ - ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - - (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton, - alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + http://ngircd.barton.de/ + (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the - terms of the GNU General Public License. - + terms of the GNU General Public License. -- README-Interix.txt -- @@ -20,10 +18,13 @@ Windows Server 2003. SUA is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 -- so ngIRCd should be able to run on all of these platforms. -But please note that the poll() API function is not fully implemented by -SFU/SUA and therefore can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be -the default. Please see <http://www.suacommunity.com/faqs.aspx> section -4.25 for details: +But please note that two things: + +1. Don't use the poll() IO API + +The poll() API function is not fully implemented by SFU/SUA and therefore +can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be the default. Please see +<http://www.suacommunity.com/faqs.aspx> section 4.25 for details: "If you do try to use the poll() API your program will block on the API call forever. You must direct your program to build using the @@ -35,3 +36,9 @@ So when running the ./configure script, you HAVE TO DISABLE poll() support: ngIRCd then defaults to using the select() API function which works fine. +2. Use GNU make(1) + +Starting with ngIRCd 18, our build system doesn't work with the default +make(1) binary of Interix, you should use GNU make instead (tested with +version 3.82 built from source). +