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   1 #
   2 # MACHINES -- operating system specific information
   3 #
   4
   5 nmh is routinely built and tested on recent versions of the following
   6 platforms:
   7     Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
   8     FreeBSD 9
   9     FreeBSD 10
  10     Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu distributions)
  11     Mac OS X
  12     OpenBSD
  13     Solaris 11
  14
  15 nmh was known in the distant past to compile on the following platforms (save
  16 the exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc:
  17     AIX 4.1.5.0.01
  18     IRIX 6.5
  19     NetBSD 1.4.2
  20     Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
  21     SunOS 4.1
  22
  23 Platform-specific notes follow.
  24
  25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  26                                     Linux
  27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  28
  29 Run-time package requirements:
  30     ncurses-libs
  31     gdbm, db4, or libdb (only needed for slocal(1))
  32     readline (if you want readline support)
  33     cyrus-sasl-lib / libsasl2 (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
  34     openssl-libs / libssl (if configured with --with-tls)
  35
  36 Additional build-time package requirements:
  37     flex
  38     ncurses-devel / libncurses5-devel
  39     gdbm-devel, db4-devel or libdb-devel/libdb-dev (only needed for slocal(1))
  40     readline-devel (if you want readline support)
  41     cyrus-sasl-devel / libsasl2-dev (if configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl)
  42     openssl-devel / libssl-dev (if configuring with --with-tls)
  43
  44 Packages required to regenerate the configure script:
  45     autoconf
  46     automake
  47
  48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  49                                     Cygwin
  50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  51
  52 Run-time package requirements:
  53     file
  54     libncurses10 or libncursesw10
  55     libgdbm4 (only needed for slocal(1))
  56     libiconv or libiconv2 (if you want iconv support)
  57     libreadline7 (if you want readline support)
  58     libsasl2_3 (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
  59     openssl (if configured with --with-tls)
  60
  61 Additional build-time package requirements:
  62     flex
  63     libncurses-devel or libncursesw-devel
  64     libgdbm4-devel (only needed for slocal(1))
  65     libiconv-devel (if you want iconv support)
  66     libreadline-devel (if you want readline support)
  67     libsasl2-devel (if configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl)
  68     openssl-devel (if configuring with --with-tls)
  69
  70     Older versions of libncurses-devel do not install /usr/include/curses.h,
  71     /usr/include/term.h, and /usr/include/termcap.h.  If yours does not,
  72     either add symlinks in /usr/include/ to those files in its ncurses/
  73     subdirectory, or build with:
  74         make DEFAULT_INCLUDES='-I. -I/usr/include/ncurses'
  75
  76 Packages required to regenerate the configure script:
  77     autoconf
  78     automake
  79
  80 When running the nmh test suite ("make check"), it helps to have /usr/bin/
  81 ahead of any Windows directories on your PATH.
  82
  83 Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and similar
  84 filesystems.
  85
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  87                                      HPUX
  88 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  89
  90 Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'.  In particular,
  91 problems with `scan' giving incorrect dates (everything is 01/00).  It is
  92 highly recommended that you use `gcc' instead.
  93
  94 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  95                                   Irix (SGI)
  96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  97
  98 Irix make is notoriously buggy. If you're using it, you should "touch
  99 config.h.in" before configuring to prevent a problem where it tries to rebuild
 100 targets that shouldn't be rebuilt. (Alternately, you can just use GNU make
 101 instead of Irix make.)
 102
 103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 104                            SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4
 105 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 106
 107 You can't use the C compiler that comes with SunOS 4 since it isn't ANSI C.
 108 But nmh builds just fine with gcc.
 109
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 111
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 113 The nmh team
 114 nmh-workers@nongnu.org