Add a note about new bindir option to mhparam.

[nmh] / MACHINES

diff --git a/MACHINES b/MACHINES
index 4ff5525335abf65688ff8fd6ca5546ee0a9d2512..1547a4acc66fcc9c6e5060095fb554d29f483200 100644 (file)
--- a/MACHINES
+++ b/MACHINES
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ platforms:
     Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
     FreeBSD 9
     FreeBSD 10
     Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
     FreeBSD 9
     FreeBSD 10

-    Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu distributions)
+    Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, and CentOS distributions)

     Mac OS X 10.9
     OpenBSD 5.4
     Solaris 11
     Mac OS X 10.9
     OpenBSD 5.4
     Solaris 11


@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ the exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc:
     Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
     SunOS 4.1
 
     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
+    automake
+    flex
+They are not required if building from an nmh distribution (.tar.gz) file.
+

 Platform-specific notes follow.
 
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 Platform-specific notes follow.
 
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@@ -34,16 +41,14 @@ Run-time package requirements:
     openssl-libs / libssl (if configured with --with-tls)
 
 Additional build-time package requirements:
     openssl-libs / libssl (if configured with --with-tls)
 
 Additional build-time package requirements:

-    flex

     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)
 
     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)
 

-Packages required to regenerate the configure script:
-    autoconf
-    automake
+Test suite package requirements:
+    ncurses (tput is needed to run test/format/test-curses)

 
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@@ -84,7 +89,6 @@ Run-time package requirements:
     openssl (if configured with --with-tls)
 
 Additional build-time package requirements:
     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)
     libncurses-devel or libncursesw-devel
     libgdbm4-devel (only needed for slocal(1))
     libiconv-devel (if you want iconv support)


@@ -98,15 +102,11 @@ Additional build-time package requirements:
     subdirectory, or build with:
         make DEFAULT_INCLUDES='-I. -I/usr/include/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.
+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 similar
-filesystems.
+Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and other
+filesystems that do not support hard links.

 
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