From 2cf5a1236888f9df5ee830bb99bc8c9d03f10c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:28:38 +0000 Subject: 19653: Latest OS-specific information --- Etc/MACHINES | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'Etc/MACHINES') diff --git a/Etc/MACHINES b/Etc/MACHINES index 6ad18e00f..27b505d22 100644 --- a/Etc/MACHINES +++ b/Etc/MACHINES @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ Apple: MacOS X/Darwin 10.x 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 @@ -75,10 +79,7 @@ FreeBSD: FreeBSD 2.2.7, 3.x, 4.x 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'. The zsh/zpty module is not - working on recent versions of 11.x. This causes all the - Y tests in the Tests subdirectory to fail, possibly in obscure - ways. However, zsh/zpty is not needed in normal operation. + Should build `out-of-the-box'. Previous problems encountered on HP-UX 11.x: @@ -101,15 +102,10 @@ HP/Compaq: Tru64 4.x, 5.x IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x, 5.x Should build `out-of-the-box'. - AIX, unusually, requires that symbols available in dynamically - loaded libraries be marked explicitly. As the developers do not - have direct access to AIX these markers are often missing. The - usual symptom is that linking a library (.so) file fails and - reports a missing symbol. Please report any such failures to the - maintainers. - Certain features will not work, in particular --enable-cap - and --enable-zsh-mem. + 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 @@ -187,7 +183,9 @@ SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5 is passed the option --enable-cflags='-LANG:vla=off -O' (combined with other flags if necessary). - The zpty module is not currently supported. + 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.] -- cgit 1.4.1