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   2 # MACHINES -- operating system specific information
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   4
   5 nmh is known to compile on the following platforms (save the
   6 exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc.
   7
   8 AIX 4.1.5.0.01
   9 Cygwin (setup version 2.831, other versions may be fine)
  10 FreeBSD
  11 IRIX 6.5
  12 Linux 2.2 to current (glibc 2.1 to current)
  13 Mac OS X
  14 NetBSD 1.4.2
  15 OpenBSD
  16 Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
  17 SunOS 4.1
  18
  19 Known Compilation problems:
  20 --------------------------------------
  21 Cygwin:
  22
  23 Be sure to install these Cygwin packages (or later versions):
  24   libdb4.8
  25   libdb4.8-devel
  26   libgdbm-devel
  27   libncurses-devel
  28
  29 Some versions of libncurses-devel do not install /usr/include/curses.h,
  30 /usr/include/term.h, and /usr/include/termcap.h.  If yours does not,
  31 add /usr/include/ symlinks to those files in /usr/include/ncurses/.
  32
  33 The database packages are only used by slocal(1).
  34
  35 If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these Cygwin packages:
  36   libsasl2
  37   libsasl2-devel
  38
  39 If configuring with --with-tls, install this Cygwin package (or a
  40 later version):
  41   libgnutls28
  42
  43 When running the nmh test suite ("make check"), it helps to have
  44 /usr/bin/ ahead of any Windows directories on your PATH.
  45
  46 Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and
  47 similar filesystems.
  48
  49 --------------------------------------
  50 HPUX:
  51
  52 Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'.  In particular,
  53 problems with `scan' giving incorrect dates (everything is 01/00).
  54 It is highly recommended that you use `gcc' instead.
  55
  56 Also, new versions of HPUX (10.20?) will core dump in `scan' because
  57 of some workaround code in zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.  This workaround is
  58 needed for older versions of HPUX, but causes problems on newer versions.
  59 The solution is the added line (minus our indentation):
  60
  61     #undef hpux
  62
  63 after line 15 of the file zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.
  64
  65 --------------------------------------
  66 Irix (SGI):
  67
  68 Irix make is notoriously buggy. If you're using it, you should "touch
  69 config.h.in" before configuring to prevent a problem where it tries to
  70 rebuild targets that shouldn't be rebuilt. (Alternately, you can just
  71 use GNU make instead of Irix make.)
  72
  73 --------------------------------------
  74 Linux:
  75
  76 These packages are required at runtime:
  77   ncurses-libs
  78   libdb (only for slocal(1))
  79   cyrus-sasl-lib (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
  80   gnutls (if configured with --with-tls)
  81
  82 For building, these packages are required:
  83   ncurses-devel
  84   libdb-devel (only for slocal(1))
  85   gdbm-devel (only for slocal(1))
  86
  87 If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these packages:
  88   cyrus-sasl-lib-devel
  89
  90 --------------------------------------
  91 Solaris:
  92
  93 With --enable-debug you'll see a lot of warnings. This is even worse
  94 when compiling using the Sun Workshop compiler since it issues a
  95 warning for every instance of a problem instead of summarizing them.
  96 The main one concerns arrays with an index of type char. This is ok.
  97 The array itself is a hash of chars, so the array size and the type
  98 match. There isn't another safe and portable way to do this at the
  99 moment. An explicit cast would get rid of the warnings, but I think
 100 it's better to leave it complaining for now until we come up with
 101 a better solution. The whole thing is probablly going to be chucked
 102 with UTF-8 support anyway.
 103
 104 Other than the warnings, it builds ok.
 105
 106 --------------------------------------
 107 SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4:
 108
 109 You can't use the C compiler that comes with SunOS 4 since
 110 it isn't ANSI C.  But nmh builds just fine with gcc. With
 111 --enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings.
 112
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 114
 115 --
 116 The nmh team
 117 nmh-workers@nongnu.org