# 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 2.763, 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:
-
-Be sure to install these Cygwin packages:
- gdbm
- libgdbm4
- libgdbm-devel
- libncurses10
- libncurses-devel
-
-If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these Cygwin packages:
- libsasl2
- libsas2-devel
-
-If configuring with --with-tls, install these Cygwin packages:
- gnutls-devel
- libgnutls26
-
-Note that the -link switch to refile cannot be used on FAT32 and
-similar filesystems.
-
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-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,
-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):
-
- #undef hpux
-
-after line 15 of the file zotnet/tws/lexstring.c.
-
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-Irix (SGI):
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 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.)
-
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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.
-
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-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 UTF-8 support anyway.
-
-Other than the warnings, it builds ok.
+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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-SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 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.
+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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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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