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| author | Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> | 2015-09-10 18:44:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> | 2015-09-30 19:42:25 -0700 |
| commit | 1bbebfb7afadac4adf209cf7f7ab69655479638b (patch) | |
| tree | 28a9aef8d4afd73084bbf3264b1efbf5499369cc /INSTALL.md | |
| parent | c28a1f83b1d6028cd3bc7aae6e07bbcc5665e57a (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-1bbebfb7afadac4adf209cf7f7ab69655479638b.tar.gz | |
configure: add configuration options for libcap-ng
Add configuration option for enabling or disabling linking with
libcap-ng. Since capabilities are a security feature, the libcapng
option is handled as follows:
- no option: use libcapng if it's present
--disable-libcapng: do not use libcapng
--enable-libcapng: do use libcapng and fail configuration if
it's missing
On Linux, not linking with libcapng makes all OVS daemons fail when
--user option is specified.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 9dac430a5..906825a15 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ you will need the following software: libssl is installed, then Open vSwitch will automatically build with support for it. + - libcap-ng, written by Steve Grubb, is optional but recommended. It + is required to run OVS daemons as a non-root user with dropped root + privileges. If libcap-ng is installed, then Open vSwitch will + automatically build with support for it. + - Python 2.7. On Linux, you may choose to compile the kernel module that comes with |