summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-07-22 23:43:41 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-07-22 23:43:41 +0000
commit554e64ea47473a9546624706ff8fc84a952fed66 (patch)
treee4d7ec35e3b1d5b6d135735471fe177c2416bebb /Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL
parent730f0f077f73f09896b995953daad44d73895172 (diff)
xz 5.0.5
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@31269 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL')
-rw-r--r--Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL44
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL b/Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL
index 992f9073b34..8b393190447 100644
--- a/Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL
+++ b/Build/source/extra/xz/INSTALL
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
1. Supported platforms
1.1. Compilers
1.2. Platform-specific notes
- 1.2.1. IRIX
- 1.2.2. MINIX 3
- 1.2.3. OpenVMS
- 1.2.4. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
- 1.2.5. Tru64
- 1.2.6. Windows
- 1.2.7. DOS
+ 1.2.1. AIX
+ 1.2.2. IRIX
+ 1.2.3. MINIX 3
+ 1.2.4. OpenVMS
+ 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
+ 1.2.6. Tru64
+ 1.2.7. Windows
+ 1.2.8. DOS
1.3. Adding support for new platforms
2. configure options
2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
@@ -63,7 +64,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
1.2. Platform-specific notes
-1.2.1. IRIX
+1.2.1. AIX
+
+ If you use IBM XL C compiler, pass CC=xlc_r to configure. If
+ you use CC=xlc instead, you must disable threading support
+ with --disable-threads (usually not recommended).
+
+
+1.2.2. IRIX
MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using
the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should
@@ -74,16 +82,18 @@ XZ Utils Installation
putting "-64" to CFLAGS to build a 64-bit version might help too.
-1.2.2. MINIX 3
+1.2.3. MINIX 3
The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK),
which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils.
- MINIX 3.1.8 (and possibly some other versions too) has bugs in
- /usr/include/stdint.h, which has to be patched before XZ Utils
- can be compiled correctly. See
+ MINIX 3.1.8 and older have bugs in /usr/include/stdint.h, which has
+ to be patched before XZ Utils can be compiled correctly. See
<http://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=537>.
+ MINIX 3.2.0 and later use a different libc and aren't affected by
+ the above bug.
+
XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and
number of CPU cores on MINIX 3.
@@ -91,7 +101,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure).
-1.2.3. OpenVMS
+1.2.4. OpenVMS
XZ Utils can be built for OpenVMS, but the build system files
are not included in the XZ Utils source package. The required
@@ -101,7 +111,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#xzutils
-1.2.4. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
+1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
The following linker error has been reported on some x86 systems:
@@ -111,14 +121,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
as an argument to the configure script.
-1.2.5. Tru64
+1.2.6. Tru64
If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to
configure), you may need the workaround mention in section 4.1 in
this file (pass also ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= to configure).
-1.2.6. Windows
+1.2.7. Windows
Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW + MSYS,
MinGW-w64 + MSYS, and Cygwin. There is windows/build.bash to
@@ -138,7 +148,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
windows/README-Windows.txt for details.
-1.2.7. DOS
+1.2.8. DOS
There is an experimental Makefile in the "dos" directory to build
XZ Utils on DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is