modified from 18236: HP-UX curses problem latest

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Etc/MACHINES b/Etc/MACHINES
index 07a45c909..17f2a72c6 100644
--- a/Etc/MACHINES
+++ b/Etc/MACHINES
@@ -69,15 +69,24 @@ 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, 11.0
-	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
+	Should build `out-of-the-box', although various problems have
+	been 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.
 
-	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.
+	  Problems with dynamic loading have been reported, 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.
 
-	Compiling with gcc 2.7.1 is known to fail with header file
-	conflicts on HP-UX 11.  Use the HP ANSI C compiler.
+	  Compiling with gcc 2.7.1 is known to fail with header file
+	  conflicts.  Use the HP ANSI C compiler.
 
 IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x
 	Should build `out-of-the-box', but --enable-zsh-mem will not work.