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-# MACHINE -- operating system specific information
+# MACHINES -- operating system specific information

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-# $Id$
-#
-
-nmh is known 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
-FreeBSD
-IRIX 6.5
-Linux 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (glibc 2.1, glibc 2.2)
-Mac OS X Public Beta
-NetBSD 1.4.2
-OpenBSD
-Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
-SunOS 4.1
-
-Known Compilation problems:
---------------------------------------
-FreeBSD:
-OpenBSD:
-NetBSD:
-
-Some BSD4.4 machines have problems when running nmh's configure script.
-They will be unable to find the location of vi and sendmail.  This is
-due to POSIX features (breakage?) in the shell sh.  The solution is to
-run the configure script under the shell `bash':
-
-    % bash configure

 
 

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-Mac OS X/Rhapsody 5:
-
-Version 5.3 at least has the same sh/bash bug as the *BSD systems
-above. This appears to be fixed in 5.5.
-
-Will not compile correctly unless you configure with the --enable-debug
-option. It appears to find conflicts in the headers only when debugging
-is disabled. With debugging enabled, it compiles and runs happily.
-
---------------------------------------
-HPUX:
+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.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                    Linux
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                    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:
+    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.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                     HPUX
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

 
 

-Also, new versions of HPUX (10.20?) will core dump in `scan' because
-of some workaround code in zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.  This workaround is
-needed for older versions of HPUX, but causes problems on newer versions.
-The solution is the added line (minus our indentation):
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                  Irix (SGI)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
 

-    #undef hpux
-
-after line 15 of the file zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.
+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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-Irix (SGI):
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                           SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
 

-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.)
-
---------------------------------------
-Linux:
-
-The configuration script does a test to discover if your vi is broken
-(if it reports non-zero exit codes on certain pseudo-errors).  This test
-will hang if the program `ex' on your system is a link to the vi clone
-`vile'.  The workaround is to replace the command ex as a link to another
-vi clone such as nvi or elvis.
-
---------------------------------------
-Solaris:
-
-With --enable-debug you'll see a lot of warnings. This is even worse
-when compiling using the Sun Workshop compiler since it issues a
-warning for every instance of a problem instead of summarizing them.
-The main one concerns arrays with an index of type char. This is ok.
-The array itself is a hash of chars, so the array size and the type
-match. There isn't another safe and portable way to do this at the
-moment. An explicit cast would get rid of the warnings, but I think
-it's better to leave it complaining for now until we come up with
-a better solution. The whole thing is probablly going to be chucked
-with UTC-8 support anyway.
-
-Other than the warnings, it builds ok.
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-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. With
---enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings. 
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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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