/libvmod-named

A DNS director for Varnish 4.1

Primary LanguageCOtherNOASSERTION

Varnish Named Module

DESCRIPTION

A DNS director for Varnish 4.1 that relies on the system's resolver.

INSTALLATION

The source tree is based on autotools to configure the building, and does also have the necessary bits in place to do functional unit tests using the varnishtest tool.

Building requires the Varnish header files and uses pkg-config to find the necessary paths.

Usage:

./autogen.sh
./configure

If you have installed Varnish to a non-standard directory, call autogen.sh and configure with PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing to the appropriate path. For instance, when varnishd configure was called with --prefix=$PREFIX, use

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Make targets:

  • make - builds the vmod.
  • make install - installs your vmod.
  • make check - runs the unit tests in src/tests/*.vtc
  • make distcheck - run check and prepare a tarball of the vmod.

Installation directories

By default, the vmod configure script installs the built vmod in the same directory as Varnish, determined via pkg-config(1). The vmod installation directory can be overridden by passing the VMOD_DIR variable to configure.

Other files like man-pages and documentation are installed in the locations determined by configure, which inherits its default --prefix setting from Varnish.

COMMON PROBLEMS

  • configure: error: Need varnish.m4 -- see README.rst

    Check if PKG_CONFIG_PATH has been set correctly before calling autogen.sh and configure