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2.3. Building mpd

If you choose to build mpd yourself to customize it, the process is straightforward. First, edit the Makefile to define (or undefine) the various device types and options you want to support. Then type make depend all to rebuild the binary.

The various build-time definitions in the Makefile are below:

MPD_CONF_DIR

The default configuration directory where mpd looks for mpd.conf, mpd.links, etc.

PHYSTYPE_MODEM
PHYSTYPE_TCP
PHYSTYPE_UDP
PHYSTYPE_NG_SOCKET
PHYSTYPE_PPTP

Define these to include support for the corresponding device type. Note: type pptp is not included at this time.

PHYSTYPE_MODEM_NGASYNC

For the modem device type, this enables additional support for the Netgraph synchronous-asynchronous node type line discipline. This results in a lower CPU load when running mpd over serial links. You must have netgraph installed in your system for this to work.

COMPRESSION_PRED1
COMPRESSION_STAC
COMPRESSION_MPPC
COMPRESSION_DEFLATE

These enable support for the corresponding compression types. Note that STAC and MPPC compression require proprietary source files that are not included. DEFLATE is unimplemented. All of these are not very well tested.

ENCRYPTION_DES
ENCRYPTION_MPPE

These enable support for the corresponding encryption types. Note that MPPE require proprietary source files (for RC4) that are not included. DES requires that libdes is installed on your system.

MICROSOFT_CHAP

Enables support for Microsoft style CHAP (version 1). This option also requires that libdes is installed on your system. Note that this option is implied by the ENCRYPTION_MPPE option.

SYSLOG_FACILITY

Mpd normally logs via syslog(3) using the facility LOG_DAEMON. You can customize the facility here.


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