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echoping appears to compile and run at least on Linux, FreeBSD,
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NetBSD, MacOS X, Solaris (gcc only) and Tru64. On Mac OS X, you'll
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probably need a version >= 10.2. Some versions of RedHat 7 ship with a
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completely broken C compiler (echoping displays negative times).
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You do not have to be root to install it.
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Just type "./configure", then "make", "make test" if you wish (some
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tests depend on local servers and/or Internet access, interpret with
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care) and then (as root if necessary), "make install". Since
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echoping's configure script is quite slow, it is highly recommended to
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use --config-cache or to have a config.site where it is the default
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(see autoconf documentation).
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There is also a 'make fulltest' if you want to test more things (which
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may not be available on your platform).
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"configure" has some options:
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--disable-http (suppress the HTTP support)
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--disable-smtp (suppress the SMTP support)
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--enable-icp (add the ICP support, to monitor Web proxies like Squid)
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--without-libidn (suppress the IDN support, the handling of Unicode - multi-script - domain names, see RFC 3490)
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--with-libidn[=/where/is/libidn] (tell the system where to find the GNU libidn library <http://www.josefsson.org/libidn/>)
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--with-gnutls[=/where/is/gnutls] (add the SSL/TLS support, you will need
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the GNU TLS library <http://www.gnutls.org/>)
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--with-ssl[=/where/is/ssl] (add the SSL/TLS support, you will need
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the OpenSSL library <http://www.openssl.org/>)
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--disable-ttcp (suppress the T/TCP support which is enabled only if
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your system supports it - FreeBSD does. See
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<http://www.kohala.com/start/ttcp.html>)
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--enable-max-iterations=MAX (limit the number of iterations (-n option for
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repeated tests) to MAX)
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--enable-max-request-size=MAX (limit the size of the request (-s option) to MAX)
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--enable-plugin=LIST (list of plugins to build)
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There is no option to disable IPv6. echoping now uses the new (RFC
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3493, but first specified in RFC 2133 in september 1997) socket
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interface, with getnameinfo/getaddrinfo. If your system does not
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support it (Mac OS X <= 10.1), you have no other choices than using
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echoping 4.
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There is no option to disable the use of dlopen() or the popt
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library. dlopen() is necessary for the plugins (and, in the future,
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all protocol code will be in plugins). The popt library provides a
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better and easier parsing of options and, more important, is necessary
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for resuming parsing, something that the plugins rely heavily on. If
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your system does not support dlopen() or if you do not want to install
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the popt library (which is free and runs on every Unix), you have no
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other choices than using echoping 5. popt can be retrieved from, for
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instance, ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/popt-1.7.tar.gz or
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ask Freshmeat at http://freshmeat.net/projects/popt/.
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Standard "autoconf/configure" options are supported such as --prefix
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to set the installation root directory.
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If 'echoping -h' replies with a "404" error while the file really exists,
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check first that you use the FQDN of the server on the command line
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(this is a consequence of the HTTP 1.1 protocol, not a bug in echoping
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and this will show only if the HTTP server uses "virtual hosting").
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************* Bug reports ***********************
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To report a bug, email Stephane Bortzmeyer
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<bortz@users.sourceforge.net> (if you have an account at SourceForge,
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you can use their bug reporting tool, too). If the problem is at the
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"./configure" step, do not forget to send configure's output *and* the
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config.log.
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If echoping segfaults, please send me debugging info. To do so:
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make clean
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make debug
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gdb ./echoping
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run the-options-that-exhibits-the-problem
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where
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list
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print the-variables-displayed
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********** System-specific notes **************
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HP-UX: echoping probably cannot run because it depends on a feature
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called "back-linking" (the main program must be able to export its
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symbols to the plugins, and not only the other way around). HP-UX is
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apparently the only Unix without it (see libtool documentation). No
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solution yet.
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FreeBSD: popt is a port, so "pkg_add -r popt" will work (or
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"portinstall popt").
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NetBSD: popt is a port, so "pkg_add popt" will work.
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Debian: echoping is a Debian package so you typically do not need to
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compile it. If you want to do it, do not forget to install the
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development versions of the libraries ("apt-get install libpopt-dev").
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$Id$
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