# # MACHINES -- operating system specific information # nmh is routinely built and tested on recent versions of the following platforms: Cygwin (32- and 64-bit) FreeBSD 9 FreeBSD 10 Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, and CentOS distributions) Mac OS X 10.9 OpenBSD 5.4 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 On all platforms, the following programs are required to build nmh from a snapshot of the source code repository: autoconf 2.68 or later automake 1.12 or later flex 2.5.4 or later bison 2.3 or later, Berkeley yacc 1.9 or later, or Solaris yacc 4.0 They are not required if building from an nmh distribution (.tar.gz) file. Platform-specific notes follow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Run-time package requirements: ncurses-libs gdbm, db4, or 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: ncurses-devel / libncurses5-devel gdbm-devel, db4-devel or 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) Test suite package requirements: ncurses (tput is needed to run test/format/test-curses) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mac OS X ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If configured with --with-tls on Mac OS 10.7 or later, there will be compile warnings from mts/smtp/smtp.c about the deprecated OpenSSL that is supplied with that system. nmh will build and run with that OpenSSL, though it may be an old version. Alternatively, the OpenSSL source code is available from http://www.openssl.org/source/. To build 64-bit libraries, the OpenSSL configure command should start with, e.g., ./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc To build nmh with those OpenSSL libraries, the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS can be set by adding the following to the nmh configure command line, or in the shell environment before calling configure or build_nmh: CPPFLAGS='-D__arch64__ -IOpenSSL-include-path' LDFLAGS=-LOpenSSL-lib-path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FreeBSD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additional build-time package requirements: devel/autotools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cygwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: 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' Test suite package requirements: ncurses (tput is needed to run test/format/test-curses) Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and other filesystems that do not support hard links. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPUX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Irix (SGI) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- The nmh team nmh-workers@nongnu.org