Installation instructions
=========================

This software suite should compile quite fine on a variety of platforms,
e.g. current versions of Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly
BSD, Darwin, Linux and Cygwin. See the comments at the beginning of

  misc/sysconf.h

for a somewhat comprehensive list.

Unless you're trying to install the software on an unsupported system,
there shouldn't be any need to mess with the makefiles. If you do so,
you're on your own, and you'll better know what you're doing.

Build environment
-----------------

Required tools:

- A supported C compiler, plus linker. GCC is fine, but no longer required.
- GNU make (version 3.79.1, unpatched,  recommended, others may or may
  not work).

Compile & Install
-----------------

Please run "./configure --help". It will output a list of supported
options. Then run ./configure with the appropriate arguments. After
that, run "make" to start the compilation process and "make install"
to install the compiled binaries.

Example:

  ./configure tac_plus
  make
  sudo make install

You may actually omit the "configure" step if you're content with
the default build options, which are to compile everything and to
use all optional features your system supports at first glance.

For initial testing, before installing anything, you may enter the
	/usr/local/lib/mavis/sample
directory and run the sample configurations you'll find there.

Documentation
=============

The distribution comes with documentation located in the
top-level "doc" directory.

Support
=======

While I really appreciate that you're using the software I'd
very much prefer *not* to receive private support enquiries.

Please direct support queries to the mailing list at

   event-driven-servers@googlegroups.com