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Replaced explicit list of files to be copied in test/common.sh.in
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--- a/MACHINES
+++ b/MACHINES
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ platforms:
     Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
     FreeBSD 9
     FreeBSD 10
     Cygwin (32- and 64-bit)
     FreeBSD 9
     FreeBSD 10
-    Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu distributions)
-    Mac OS X
-    OpenBSD
+    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
     Solaris 11
 
 nmh was known in the distant past to compile on the following platforms (save
@@ -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.
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Platform-specific notes follow.
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -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)
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Mac OS X
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Mac OS X
@@ -63,6 +68,13 @@ 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
 
 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
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Cygwin
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -77,7 +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)
@@ -91,15 +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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                                      HPUX
 
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                                      HPUX