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+#
+# MACHINE -- 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
+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:
+--------------------------------------
+FreeBSD:
+OpenBSD:
+NetBSD:
+
+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':
+
+    % bash configure
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.
+
+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.
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.)
+
+--------------------------------------
+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.
+
+--------------------------------------
+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 UTC-8 support anyway.
+
+Other than the warnings, it builds ok.
+--------------------------------------
+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. 
+--------------------------------------
+
+