X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=MACHINES;h=a27bfd9e33e00acbc9f982194161631f98750e66;hb=fcf12b4f8dca4904ca56bea0c715b1e685f70663;hp=71f5362d6574d3ae167751e72b347af4cf81eb8b;hpb=1691e80890e5d8ba258c51c214a3e91880e1db2b;p=mmh diff --git a/MACHINES b/MACHINES index 71f5362..a27bfd9 100644 --- a/MACHINES +++ b/MACHINES @@ -1,24 +1,44 @@ # -# MACHINE -- operating system specific information -# -# $Id$ +# 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 2.763, 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: -------------------------------------- +Cygwin: -FreeBSD: -OpenBSD: -NetBSD: +Be sure to install these Cygwin packages: + gdbm + libgdbm4 + libgdbm-devel + libncurses10 + 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' +If configuring with --with-cyrus-sasl, install these Cygwin packages: + libsasl2 + libsasl2-devel -bash configure +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. +-------------------------------------- HPUX: Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'. In particular, @@ -28,41 +48,23 @@ 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 the line +The solution is the added line (minus our indentation): -#undef hpux + #undef hpux after line 15 of the file zotnet/tws/lexstring.c. -------------------------------------- - Irix (SGI): -If you are compiling nmh with POP support, then the configuration -process will search for (and find) the Irix version of "ruserpass". -Unfortunately, this version is buggy and causes core dumps. The best -bet is to use the version that comes with nmh. After running configure, -edit the Makefile in the "sbr" directory, and add "ruserpass.o" to the -LIBOBJS line. Then run "make" as normal. +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: -Make sure you uncomment the Linux section in the config.h file after -running configure. - -The configuration script does a test to discover the functions -sigsetjmp/siglongjmp. Since they are macros on Linux, the configuration -process doesn't find them. After running configure, you should change -the line in config.h to define HAVE_SIGSETJMP. - -For some Linux distributions, the configure script doesn't find the -ndbm/gdbm library (dbm_open, dbm_close). In this case, you should try to -configure nmh like this: - - LIBS=-lgdbm ./configure [configure options] - 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 @@ -70,23 +72,30 @@ will hang if the program `ex' on your system is a link to the vi clone vi clone such as nvi or elvis. -------------------------------------- +Solaris: -SCO: +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. -Make sure you uncomment the SCO section in the config.h file after -running configure. +Other than the warnings, it builds ok. -------------------------------------- +SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3/4.1.4: -Solaris: - -Builds ok. +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. -------------------------------------- -SunOS 4.1.3: - -You can't use the C compiler that comes with SunOS 4.1.3 since -it isn't ANSI C. But nmh builds just fine with gcc. - --------------------------------------- +-- +The nmh team +nmh-workers@nongnu.org