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diff --git a/MACHINES b/MACHINES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2f44f7629 --- /dev/null +++ b/MACHINES @@ -0,0 +1,239 @@ +----------------------------- +ZSH ON SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURES +----------------------------- + +These are the OSes that zsh has been tried on. If you succeed in getting +zsh to work on an OS not listed, let us know. The information in this +list may be out of date, as the developers do not have access to all +machines. In general, GNU/Linux distributions, Solaris and Cygwin are +reasonably well covered. Please let us have any recent information +on other systems. The information for systems not known to have been +tested recently is marked as `out of date'. + +On all machines if you use gcc and upgrade your OS you must rebuild gcc +after the OS upgrade. A gcc left from a previous OS may seem to work +but compiling more complex programs may fail mysteriously. + +The format of entries is thus: + + Vendor: OS & version (hardware type) [zsh version tried] + information + +Machines +-------- + +Apple: MacOS X/Darwin 10.x + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + + For dynamic loading to work on 10.1 and 10.2, you need to use the + dlcompat library. It can be downloaded from: + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17203 + + The zsh/zpty library is not working on 10.1 and 10.2, but is on + 10.3. This causes the tests starting `Y' in the Test directory to + fail, even though the features to be tested are working. + +Red Hat Inc.: Cygwin + Should build `out-of-the-box'. The compilation directory should + be on a file system mounted as binary (the mount command shows + `binmode'). There are various issues with Cygwin versions before + 1.3.2 - you are adviced to update to the latest release. + + Dynamic loading works as of cygwin-1.1.3 and binutils-20000722-1. + It was not tested for earlier versions. This does not imply + that every module will work. New completion and in + particular zsh/zftp and zsh/mathfunc are known to work. + + Some of the tests in the Test subdirectory are known to fail: + this is because the UNIX environment is not completely implemented. + + Cygwin allows mount without existing mount point (e.g. + "mount //server/path /usr/src" where /usr/src does not exist). + Path completion will fail inside these mounts; make sure that + every mount point really exists. + +DEC: Ultrix (Alpha or DECstation) +DEC: Mach 3.0 (DECstation 5000/25) +DEC: OSF/1 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.x, DEC Unix 4.x (Alpha) + [Out of date.] + + In OSF/1 3.x, there is apparently a bug in the header file + /usr/include/rpcsvc/ypclnt.h; the prototype for yp_all() has a + struct ypall_callback as its final argument, which should be a + pointer (struct ypall_callback *). This prevents compilation of + one of zsh' files (zle_tricky.c). If you can't modify the header + file, create a directory called `rpcsvc' in zsh's Src subdirectory + and put a fixed version of the header file to it before compiling. + + The strip coming with gcc-2.7.2 seems to create unusable binaries. + This problem is not related to zsh. If you have such problems, + remove the bogus strip and use /bin/strip instead. + + 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, 11.x (PA-RISC, Itanium) + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + + Previous problems encountered on HP-UX 11.x: + + Some of the special keys on the keyboard (backspace, delete) + have been found to stop functioning. One suggested fix is + to alter the way the curses library is linked in the Makefile. + Replacing `-lcurses' with `-lHcurses -lcurses' in the libraries + is reported to fix. An attempt to fix this in configure + is apparently ineffective; more information would be appreciated + as the maintainers do not have access to an HP-UX system. + Recent reports indicated this is not necessary on recent versions + of HP-UX 11. + + Compiling with gcc 2.7.1 is known to fail with header file + conflicts. Use the HP ANSI C compiler. + +HP/Compaq: Tru64 4.x, 5.x + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + +IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x, 5.x + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + + Certain features will not work, in particular --enable-cap + and --enable-zsh-mem. (The feature enabled by --enable-cap + is apparently present, however. Help getting this to work + would be appreciated.) + + On 3.2, for 64-bit integer support you need to compile with gcc, as + the native compiler does not support ANSI simultaneously with + `long long'. On 4.1, there appeared to be problems using + --enable-dynamic (the default) with gcc (version was 2.7.2.3), + though native cc works. More information about this problem + would be appreciated. + + It was reported, that at least some 4.x versions have problem + with curses - variables boolcodes and some other are declared + in term.h but missing is libcurses.a. That makes native compiler + very unhappy (GCC 3.0 apparently does not mind). Zsh now defaults + to termcap on AIX; any info about this problem is appreciated. + +Linux: Linux 2.x (various 32-bit and 64-bit processors) + 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 + process reports that there is no lstat, edit config.h and change + HAVE_LSTAT to 1. libc-5.2.18 or later does not have this problem. + + Various problems have been reported when using optimisation + with the experimental GNU compiler, egcs. In particular, + on Linux Alpha with egcs 1.0.3a and 1.1.1 using -O1 or greater, + the completion code is not correctly compiled. + + Some versions of glibc2 have a conflict with <asm/resource.h> + which causes a redefinition warning on RLIM_INFINITY. This + causes configure to decide that <sys/resource.h> is not present, + which can cause compilation errors in zsh's rlimit code. The + best solution is to edit config.h after running configure and + #define HAS_SYS_RESOURCE_H. + +NetBSD: NetBSD 1.x + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + +OpenBSD: OpenBSD 2.x, 3.x + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + +SIEMENS: Reliant UNIX + [Out of date.] + + 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 + [Out of date.] + + MX (Intel) platform: SINIX-L/M 5.41 + Builds out-of-the-box with EGCS. Neither dynamic loading nor + 64-bit integers are supported. 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. + + RM (MIPS) platform: SINIX-N/Y 5.42 + Should build out-of-the-box but it was not tested. Neither + dynamic loading nor 64-bit integers are supported. + Note, that this version is obsolete and users are expected to + update to Reliant UNIX. + +SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5 + [Out of date.] + + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + + On 6.5.2, zsh malloc routines are reported not to work; also + full optimization (cc -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0) causes problems. + + If using the SGI compiler, variable length arrays need to + be turned off. configure can work this out for itself if it + is passed the option --enable-cflags='-LANG:vla=off -O' (combined + with other flags if necessary). + + The zpty module is not currently supported. This causes the + tests starting `Y' in the Test directory to fail, even though + the features to be tested are working. + +Sun: SunOS 4.1.x + [Out of date.] + + Under 4.1.3 if yellow pages is used, username completion may cause + segmentation violation. This is a bug in the shared library not + in zsh. Some libc.so.1.9.* has this bug (it fails in yp_all). + Statically linked binaries will work if linked with libc.so.1.8.1 + (which means that if you can get a statically linked binary + compiled under 4.1.2 that it will probably work). An alternative + but untested solution may be to undefine HAVE_NIS in config.h. + This may work, but the first username completion will be _very_ + slow (as slow as in tcsh). + +Sun: Solaris 2.x, 8, 9 + The UCB versions of the routines for reading directories are not + usable (the struct definitions are incompatible with the ones + assumed by zsh). The symptom of this is that globbed filenames in + the compiled version of zsh will be missing the first two letters. + 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. + + Problems were once reported using --enable-lfs (the default) to + enable large file system and integer support on Solaris 2 with gcc + before 2.95.2. Recent versions of gcc appear to be unproblematic. + +Other machines +-------------- + +Zsh has previously been compiled on the following machines, but the +developers do not have direct access to them and the reports may be out of +date. We would be glad to receive any reports of success or failure on +these OS's --- and, of course, any others not mentioned in this file. + +Apple/NeXT OpenStep 4.2 for i386. + Reported to work at least with gcc 2.8.1 and gawk 2.15 patchlevel + 6, but not with the bundled cc 2.7.2.1 and awk. + +Cray: Unicos (C90 and T90) + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + +Data General: DG/UX 5.4R3.10 MU01 (various AViiONs) + Should build `out-of-the-box'. + +Next: NextStep 3.* + Should build `out-of-the-box', but the zsh malloc routines are + not recommended. + +SCO: UnixWare 2.1.3 + Builds `out-of-the-box'. |