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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL b/doc/INSTALL index 78cf1ebf..0b75607e 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL +++ b/doc/INSTALL @@ -246,3 +246,24 @@ DOCUMENTATION Documentation is not packaged with the program source code. See the file doc/USERDOC for information on installing documentation. + + +COMMON PROBLEMS +--------------- + +Apple Mac: unknown machine mode 'V8QI' +-------------------------------------- + +Netpbm 10.35 does not work on modern Macs. These newer systems have a +different compiler than what 10.35 was designed for, and it reports itself as +the GNU Compiler but doesn't provide some of the facilities the GNU Compiler +does. Because Netpbm 10.35 was the Super Stable release series by the time +the newer Macs were found to be incompatible and this is a very complex area, +we cannot fix it in 10.35. + +Netpbm 10.51 and later work. + +You can work around the problem by adding the option '-mno-sse' to the +compile, which you can do like this: + + $ make CFLAGS=-mno-sse |