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+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
+FreeBSD
+IRIX 6.5
+Linux 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (glibc 2.1, glibc 2.2)
+Mac OS X Public Beta
+NetBSD 1.4.2
+OpenBSD
+Solaris 7 and 8 (sparc,x86)
+SunOS 4.1
+
+Known Compilation problems:
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-
FreeBSD:
OpenBSD:
NetBSD:
-Mac OS X/Rhapsody 5:
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'
+run the configure script under the shell `bash':
-bash configure
+ % bash configure
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+Mac OS X/Rhapsody 5:
+Version 5.3 at least has the same sh/bash bug as the *BSD systems
+above. This appears to be fixed in 5.5.
+
+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.
+
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HPUX:
Lots of problems have been reported with using HPUX `cc'. In particular,
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.
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-
Irix (SGI):
Irix make is notoriously buggy. If you're using it, you should "touch
rebuild targets that shouldn't be rebuilt. (Alternately, you can just
use GNU make instead of Irix make.)
-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.
-
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-
Linux:
-*** No longer necessary ***
-Make sure you uncomment the Linux section in the config.h file after
-running configure.
-
-*** This test has been updated and should work now ***
-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.
-
-*** This test has been updated and should work now ***
-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
vi clone such as nvi or elvis.
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-
-SCO:
-
-*** currently handled by config.guess ***
-Make sure you uncomment the SCO section in the config.h file after
-running configure.
-
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-
Solaris:
-With --enable-nmh-debug you'll see a lot of warnings. This is even
-worse when compiling using the Sun Workshop compiler since it issues a
+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
with UTC-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-nmh-debug you will see a lot of warnings.
-
+--enable-debug you will see a lot of warnings.
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+
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