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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 --sysconfdir and --localstatedir configure options.


Requirements
============

For compiling BIRD you need these programs and libraries:

 - GNU C Compiler
 - GNU Make
 - GNU Bison
 - GNU M4
 - Flex

 - ncurses library
 - GNU Readline library (2.1 or newer)

For compiling BIRD documentation you also need:

 - Linuxdoc-Tools
 - LaTeX