zsh-workers:7287

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Etc/MACHINES b/Etc/MACHINES
index 27e21f330..ce889a7fa 100644
--- a/Etc/MACHINES
+++ b/Etc/MACHINES
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 -----------------------------
 ZSH ON SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURES
 -----------------------------
@@ -38,17 +39,30 @@ DEC: OSF/1 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.*, DEC Unix 4.* (Alpha)
 	This problem is not related to zsh.  If you have such problems,
 	remove the bogus strip and use /bin/strip instead.
 
-FreeBSD: FreeBSD 2.2.7 [3.1.4]
-	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
+        On Digital UNIX 4.0, compilation with gcc and with --enable-dynamic
+        apparently needs configuring with explicit flags when compiling
+        with debugging enabled:
+          DLLD=gcc LDFLAGS='-g -rpath <path-to-.so-files>' ./configure ...
+
+FreeBSD: FreeBSD 2.2.7, 3.x, 4.x
+	Should build `out-of-the-box'.  On FreeBSD 2.2, dynamic	loading
+	does not work, but it does with 3.x and 4.x.
 
-HP: HP-UX 9, 10.20
+HP: HP-UX 9, 10.20, 11.0
 	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
 
+	Problems with dynamic loading have been reported under 11, but
+	this should compile using the standard dlopen() function set
+	(rather than the 10.20 shl_load() function set).  More details of
+	any difficulties would be appreciated.
+
 IBM: AIX
 	Should build `out-of-the-box'.  On AIX 3.x (at least),
 	--enable-zsh-mem will not work.
 
 Linux: Linux (i386) [3.1.4]
+	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
+
 	If you are using an early minor version of libc 5, then a bug
 	in the auto-configuration process may cause zsh to think that
 	your system doesn't support the lstat function.  If the configure
@@ -67,14 +81,25 @@ Next: NextStep 3.*
 	Should build `out-of-the-box', but the zsh malloc routines are
 	not recommended.
 
-Reliant: Reliant UNIX
-	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
+SIEMENS: Reliant UNIX
+	Builds `out-of-the-box'. Dynamic loading is supported. 
+	Large Files and 64-bit integers are supported as of version 5.44
+	and CDS/CDS++ compiler.
+
+SIEMENS: SINIX
+	MX (Intel) plattform: SINIX-L/M 5.41
+	Builds out-of-the-box with EGCS. Neither dynamic loading nor
+	64-bit integers are suported. Native compiler was not tried
+	mostly because GCC/EGCS builds out-of-the-box as well. If you 
+	succeed with native compiler, send a patch for this file
+	to zsh-workers.
 
-Reliant: SINIX
-	Should build `out-of-the-box'.	There is a bad combination of
-	static and shared libraries that prevents the use of dynamic
-	linking; configure now detects this and will disable dynamic
-	linking even if you requested it.
+
+	RM (MIPS) plattform: SINIX-N/Y 5.42
+	Should build out-of-the-box but it was not tested. Neither
+	dynamic loading nor 64-bit integers are suported.
+	Note, that this version is obsolete and users are expected to 
+	update to Reliant UNIX.
 
 SGI: IRIX 5.1.1.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
 	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
@@ -101,6 +126,3 @@ Sun: Solaris 2.*
 	To avoid this, make sure you compile zsh without any reference
 	to /usr/ucblib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  You can easily do this
 	by just unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before building zsh.
-
-	Under Solaris 2.7, dynamically loaded library support with
-	--enable-dynamic currently does not work.