Build a working version of pound on Ubuntu 18.04

buildPound.md

The following fetches the source code for the Pound reverse proxy and load balancer into a new directory under the current directory and builds it.

1. Install the necessary packages

   sudo apt install -y git gcc make autoconf automake libssl-dev libpcre3-dev openssl
   

2. Clone the repo. There are multiple sources, choose the one you want. Both provide support for OpenSSL >= 1.1 and WebSockets. Only perform one of the following commands.

   a. patrodyne – a fork of Pound.

   git clone https://github.com/patrodyne/pound/
   

   b. graygnuorg – This branch was 16 commits behind patrodyne as of April 20, 2019:

   git clone https://github.com/graygnuorg/pound
   

3. Change to the source directory

   cd pound
   

4. Read the additional instructions, which can be confusing and are incomplete:

   cat README-QUICK
   

   Here is what you need to do to finish building Pound:

5. Bootstrap the project

   autoreconf -f -i -s
   

6. Configure pound and install pound into its usual location (/usr/sbin):

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
   

   To install pound into to /usr/local/sbin instead:

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
   

7. Build pound. This can take some time due to generation of Diffie-Hellman parameters:

   make
   

   If your copy of gcc is recent you will get a bunch of warnings which can be ignored:

   warning: ignoring return value of 'read'
   warning: ignoring return value of 'write'
   

8. Install pound:

   sudo make install