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-# MACHINE -- operating system specific information
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-# $Id$
+# MACHINES -- operating system specific information
#
+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
+Cygwin (setup version 2.831, other versions may be fine)
+FreeBSD
+IRIX 6.5
+Linux 2.2 to current (glibc 2.1 to current)
+Mac OS X
+NetBSD 1.4.2
+OpenBSD
+Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
+SunOS 4.1
+
+Known Compilation problems:
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+Cygwin:
-FreeBSD:
-OpenBSD:
-NetBSD:
+Be sure to install these Cygwin packages (or later versions):
+ libdb4.8
+ libdb4.8-devel
+ libgdbm-devel
+ libncurses-devel
-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':
+Some versions of libncurses-devel do not install /usr/include/curses.h,
+/usr/include/term.h, and /usr/include/termcap.h. If yours does not,
+add /usr/include/ symlinks to those files in /usr/include/ncurses/.
- % bash configure
+The database packages are only used by slocal(1).
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-Mac OS X/Rhapsody 5:
+If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these Cygwin packages:
+ libsasl2
+ libsasl2-devel
-Version 5.3 at least has the same sh/bash bug as the *BSD systems
-above. This appears to be fixed in 5.5.
+If configuring with --with-tls, install this Cygwin package (or a
+later version):
+ libgnutls28
-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.
+When running the nmh test suite ("make check"), it helps to have
+/usr/bin/ ahead of any Windows directories on your PATH.
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+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,
after line 15 of the file zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.
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-
Irix (SGI):
Irix make is notoriously buggy. If you're using it, you should "touch
use GNU make instead of Irix make.)
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-
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.
+These packages are required at runtime:
+ ncurses-libs
+ libdb (only for slocal(1))
+ cyrus-sasl-lib (if configured with --with-cyrus-sasl)
+ gnutls (if configured with --with-tls)
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+For building, these packages are required:
+ ncurses-devel
+ libdb-devel (only for slocal(1))
+ gdbm-devel (only for slocal(1))
+
+If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these packages:
+ cyrus-sasl-lib-devel
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Solaris:
With --enable-debug you'll see a lot of warnings. This is even worse
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.
+with UTF-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.
+--enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings.
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+
+--
+The nmh team
+nmh-workers@nongnu.org
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