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README revision 1.11 
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      3 Special notes for cross-hosting a NetBSD build on certain platforms.  
      4 Only those platforms which have been tested to complete a "build.sh" run
      5 are listed.
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      7 All hosts must have a POSIX compatible sh. /bin/sh is assumed unless 
      8 otherwise set. This can be overridden by setting HOST_SH in the environment.
      9 
     10 In addition all hosts must provide the following local tools:
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     12 gzip
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     14 =====
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     16 NetBSD:
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     18 * _NETBSD_SOURCE is *not* to be defined/pulled in during compat/tools builds.
     19   compat_defs.h will error out if it finds it defined. 
     20 
     21 HP-UX:
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     23 * zlib must be available.
     24   This will be fixed in the future to include zlib in libnbcompat.
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     26 =====
     27 
     28 LINUX:
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     30 * Tested on RedHat Linux 7.1 (i386).
     31   Tested on RedHat Linux 7.3 (i686) on 16 Sep 2002.  Requires "LANG=C"
     32   in the environment.
     33 
     34 * Tested on Redhat Linux 8.0 (i686) in Fall 2003. Requires no special settings.
     35 
     36 * The gcc (and libstdc++, if needed) package must be installed, along
     37   with the typical system development packages (glibc-devel, etc.).
     38 
     39 * The ncurses-devel package must be installed (for nbinfo).
     40 
     41 * The zlib and zlib-devel packages must be installed.  This will be
     42   fixed in the future to include zlib in libnbcompat.
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     44 =====
     45 
     46 MACOS
     47   Probably requires a case sensitive filesystem such as UFS
     48 
     49 * Tested on 10.2.8 with Dec 2002 Developer Tools
     50     - may require a fix to /usr/bin/join, netbsd's join should work fine
     51 * Tested on 10.3 with xcode 1.0
     52     - compiles fine out of the box
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     54 =====
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     56 NETBSD (earlier releases):
     57 
     58 * Tested on NetBSD 1.5.2 (machine-independently).
     59 
     60 * Should need no special setup.
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     62 =====
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     64 SOLARIS:
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     66 * Tested on Solaris/x86 8 (5.8) with gcc 2.95.2 and Solaris/sparc 8 (5.8)
     67   with gcc 3.2 (not yet tested with SUNWspro).
     68 
     69 * $HOST_CC needs to be set properly (for gcc, it should be set to "gcc",
     70   otherwise the improper /usr/ucb/cc may be invoked by accident).
     71 
     72 * The SUNWzlib package (or a built version of zlib visible to $HOST_CC,
     73   such as SMCzlib from sunfreeware.com) must be installed.  This will be
     74   fixed in the future to include zlib in libnbcompat.
     75 
     76 * Needs the following paths, in this order, in $PATH:
     77 
     78       /usr/xpg4/bin
     79       /usr/ccs/bin
     80       <path to host C and C++ compilers>
     81       /usr/bin
     82 
     83   /usr/ucb may optionally be placed before /usr/bin, per your preference,
     84   but /usr/ucb *MUST NOT* be before /usr/ccs/bin or before the path to
     85   the host C and C++ compilers.
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