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# MACHINES -- operating system specific information
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nmh is routinely built and tested on recent versions of the following
platforms:
    Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
    FreeBSD 9
    FreeBSD 10
    Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu distributions)
    Mac OS X
    OpenBSD
    Solaris 11

nmh was known in the distant past to compile on the following platforms (save
the exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc:
    AIX 4.1.5.0.01
    IRIX 6.5
    NetBSD 1.4.2
    Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
    SunOS 4.1

Platform-specific notes follow.

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                                    Linux
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Run-time package requirements:
    ncurses-libs
    libdb (only needed for slocal(1))
    readline (if you want readline support)
    cyrus-sasl-lib / libsasl2 (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
    openssl-libs / libssl (if configured with --with-tls)

Additional build-time package requirements:
    flex
    ncurses-devel / libncurses5-devel
    libdb-devel / libdb-dev (only needed for slocal(1))
    readline-devel (if you want readline support)
    cyrus-sasl-devel / libsasl2-dev (if configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl)
    openssl-devel / libssl-dev (if configuring with --with-tls)

Packages required to regenerate the configure script:
    autoconf
    automake

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                                    Cygwin
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Run-time package requirements:
    file
    libncurses10 or libncursesw10
    libgdbm4 (only needed for slocal(1))
    libiconv or libiconv2 (if you want iconv support)
    libreadline7 (if you want readline support)
    libsasl2_3 (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
    openssl (if configured with --with-tls)

Additional build-time package requirements:
    flex
    libncurses-devel or libncursesw-devel
    libgdbm4-devel (only needed for slocal(1))
    libiconv-devel (if you want iconv support)
    libreadline-devel (if you want readline support)
    libsasl2-devel (if configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl)
    openssl-devel (if configuring with --with-tls)

    Older versions of libncurses-devel do not install /usr/include/curses.h,
    /usr/include/term.h, and /usr/include/termcap.h.  If yours does not,
    either add symlinks in /usr/include/ to those files in its ncurses/
    subdirectory, or build with:
        make DEFAULT_INCLUDES='-I. -I/usr/include/ncurses'

Packages required to regenerate the configure script:
    autoconf
    automake

When running the nmh test suite ("make check"), it helps to have /usr/bin/
ahead of any Windows directories on your PATH.

Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and similar
filesystems.

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                                     HPUX
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Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'.  In particular,
problems with `scan' giving incorrect dates (everything is 01/00).  It is
highly recommended that you use `gcc' instead.

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                                  Irix (SGI)
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Irix make is notoriously buggy. If you're using it, you should "touch
config.h.in" before configuring to prevent a problem where it tries to rebuild
targets that shouldn't be rebuilt. (Alternately, you can just use GNU make
instead of Irix make.)

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                           SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4
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You can't use the C compiler that comes with SunOS 4 since it isn't ANSI C.
But nmh builds just fine with gcc.

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