How to install BIRD =================== $ ./configure $ make # make install Default location for configuration file is /usr/local/etc/bird.conf and for control socket is /usr/local/var/run/bird.ctl . You can change that by --prefix, --sysconfdir and --runstatedir configure options, e.g.: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --runstatedir=/run To compile current development BIRD source code from Git repository, you also need Git (to download the source code) and Autoconf (to generate the configure script and associated files using 'autoreconf' tool): $ git clone https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/ $ cd bird $ autoreconf Then continue as in usual installation above. Requirements ============ For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries: - GNU C Compiler (or LLVM Clang) - GNU Make - GNU Bison - GNU M4 - Flex - ncurses library - GNU Readline library - libssh library (optional, for RPKI-Router protocol) For compiling BIRD documentation you also need: - Linuxdoc-Tools - LaTeX Note that build scripts for BIRD documentation expects 'nsgmls' from James Clark's SP suite, while modern distributions use 'onsgmls' from OpenSP suite. It is possible to build BIRD documentation with OpenSP tools, but it requires manually tweaking paths in doc/sgml2* scripts.