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@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ ZSH ON SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURES
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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.
+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+list may be out of date, as the developers do not have access to all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.
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
@@ -97,9 +101,9 @@ IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x
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 appear to be problems using
- --enable-dynamic (the default) with gcc (version was 2.7.2.3) in
- 4.1, though native cc works. More information about this problem
+ `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
@@ -168,6 +172,9 @@ SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
The zpty module is not currently supported.
Sun: SunOS 4.1.*
+ [This information is probably out of date. If you know otherwise,
+ please tell zsh-workers@sunsite.dk.]
+
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).