If you don't read this first, we won't help you.
:-)

******************************* IMPORTANT *************************************

  IF YOU ARE UPGRADING YOUR CURRENT SOURCE TREE, AND YOU TRY TO BUILD  IN IT
  WITHOUT PERFORMING AT LEAST 'make clean', THINGS _WILL_ BREAK.  IT IS
  RECOMMENDED THAT YOU RUN 'make distclean' AND THEN RERUN './configure'!

******************************* REQUIREMENTS **********************************

New Features - A short introduction:
- Please see NEWS for more detailed changes.
- Remember to read UPGRADING before each upgrade!

Necessary Requirements:

- A supported platform (look below)

- A working dynamic load library

- A working lex.  Solaris /usr/ccs/bin/lex
  appears to be broken, on this system flex
  should be used.

- A working parser/generator. bison is
  recommended on most platforms.


Feature Specific Requirements:

- For SSL Clients, SSL Challenge controlled OPER feature, and encrypted server links,
  a working OpenSSL library

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- To report bugs in SporksIRCD, visit us at irc.sporksmoo.net #sporksircd

- See the INSTALL document for info on configuring and compiling
  SporksIRCD.

- Please read doc/index.txt to get an overview of the current documentation.

- The files, /etc/services, /etc/protocols, and /etc/resolv.conf, MUST be
  readable by the user running the server in order for ircd to start.
  Errors from adns causing the ircd to refuse to start up are often related
  to permission problems on these files.

- FREEBSD USERS: if you are compiling with ipv6 you may experience
  problems with ipv4 due to the way the socket code is written.  To
  fix this you must: "sysctl net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0"

- SUPPORTED PLATFORMS: this code should compile without any warnings on:
    FreeBSD 7.x/8.x,
    Gentoo & Gentoo Hardened ~x86/~amd64/~fbsd,
    Fedora 13/14 / CentOS 4/5 / Redhat Enterprise 5/6,
    Debian Lenny/Squeeze,
    OpenSuSE 10/11,
    Solaris 10/11 (highly recommended to use SunCC or newer GCC),
    ArchLinux.
  
  Please let us know if you find otherwise.  
  It probably does not compile on AIX, IRIX or libc5 Linux.

- TESTED PLATFORMS:  The code has been tested on the following platforms, and
  is known to run properly.
    FreeBSD 7.x/8.x,
    Linux glibc-2.10, glibc-2.11,
    Solaris 10/11,
    Mac OS X 10.6 (unsupported),
    Cygwin (static modules only),
    OpenBSD 4.8,
    NetBSD 5.1.

- Please read NEWS for information about what is in this release

- Other files recommended for reading: INSTALL

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