gophernicus/INSTALL

Compiling and installing Gophernicus
====================================

Gophernicus requires a C compiler but no extra libraries aside
from standard LIBC ones. Care has been taken to use only
standard POSIX syscalls so that it should work pretty much on
any *nix system. Compiling has only been tested with GCC, but
it will most likely work with others too.

To compile and install run:

$ gzip -cd gophernicus-*.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd gophernicus-*
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then add the below line to your /etc/inetd.conf and restart
inetd. If your system comes with something else than standard
inetd "make install" should have done the right thing already.

gopher  stream  tcp  nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/in.gophernicus  in.gophernicus -h <hostname>

The -h <hostname> parameter is mandatory for a properly working
Gophernicus. Other parameters can also be added, see the full
list by running "/usr/sbin/in.gophernicus -?"

By default Gophernicus serves gopher documents from /var/gopher
although that can be changed by using the -r <root> parameter.
To enable virtual hosting create hostname directories under
the gopher root and make sure you have at least the primary
hostname (the one set with -h <hostname>) directory available
(mkdir /var/gopher/$HOSTNAME).


Compiling on Debian Linux (and Ubuntu)
======================================

The above commands work on Debian just fine, but if you prefer
having everything installed as packages run "make deb" instead
of plain "make". If all the dependencies were in place you'll
end up with an offical-looking deb package in the parent
directory (don't ask - that's just how it works). And instead
of "sudo make install" you should just install the deb with
"dpkg -i ../gophernicus_*.deb" after which It Should Just
Work(tm).


Compiling on Mac OS X
=====================

When you run "make install" on OSX-like system with launchd
the install routine also installs a plist file and tells launchd
to start the server up. In other words, It Just Works(tm).


Cross-compiling
===============

Cross-compiling to a different target architecture can be done
by defining HOSTCC and CC to be different compilers. HOSTCC
must point to a local arch compiler, and CC to the target
arch one.

$ make HOSTCC=gcc CC=target-arch-gcc


Shared memory issues
====================

Gophernicus uses SYSV shared memory for session tracking and
statistics. It creates the shared memory block using mode 600
and a predefined key which means that a shared memory block
created with one user cannot be used by another user. Simply
said, running in.gophernicus as yourself will allocate that
memory, and then running the binary through inetd as another
user (nobody) will be denied access to that memory.

If that happens you can simply delete the memory block and
let Gophernicus recreate it - no harm done.

$ su -
# ipcs -m | grep beeb
# ipcrm -M <key from the above command>


Porting to different platforms
==============================

If you need to port Gophernicus to a new platform, please take
a look at gophernicus.h which has a bunch of HAVE_* #defines.
Fiddling with those usually makes it possible to compile a working
server. If you succeed in compiling Gophernicus to a new
platform please send the patches to kim@holviala.com so I can 
include them into the next release.

Tested (and semi-supported) platforms include:

  OS            Arch          Compiler
 +-------------+-------------+-------------+
  AIX 5.1       POWER3        gcc 4
  AIX 6.1       POWER4        gcc 4
  AIX 7.1       POWER5        gcc 4
  CentOS 5.5    x86_64        gcc 4
  Debian Linux  x86_64        gcc 4
  Debian Linux  armv5tel      gcc 4
  MacOSX 10.5   i386          gcc 4
  MacOSX 10.7   x86_64        llvm-gcc 4
  MacOSX 10.8   x86_64        clang 3
  NetBSD 5.0    x86_64        gcc 4
  Haiku R1      i386          gcc 2