Understand empty fd sets properly !

[adns.git] / INSTALL

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@@ -14,12 +14,32 @@ yet.  For now, use the comments in the public header file adns.h.
 You will find that adns requires a reasonably standard and up to date
 system.
 
+The following platforms have been tested at at least some point and
+should work - please report if they don't:
+  [adns]       OS
+   pre-1.0     Linux glibc 2.1 (actually tested on Debian 2.2).
+   pre-1.0     FreeBSD 3.2             
+   pre-1.0     Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
+   pre-1.0     HP-UX 10.20, 11.00
+   pre-1.0     IRIX 6.5 *not* with GCC [1], --disable-dynamic
+Later versions of the same OS should work too.  [adns] is the latest
+version of adns that has been tested.  Usually entries in this table
+mean they pass adns's own regression test, when compiled with GCC.
+Notes/known problems:
+    [1] IRIX 6.5 inet_ntoa seems to break with GCC.
+
+The following platforms are known to be deficient and will not work:
+    Solaris 2.5                        Lacks vsnprintf
+    TruUnix64 (DEC UNIX 4.0f)  Lacks vsnprintf
+Please don't report these problems unless you have a nice,
+straightforward solution or workaround for them.
+
 In particular, the build system assumes that you have ELF shared
 libraries.  If you don't then please don't send me patches to support
 your kind of shared libraries, and don't send me patches to use
-libtool.  I'm not interested in supporting non-ELF shared libraries.
-However, if you send me an appropriate patch I'd be willing to make it
-easy or automatic to disable the ELF shared library arrangements.
+libtool.  I'm not interested in supporting non-ELF shared libraries,
+and I dislike libtool.  If you do not have ELF shared libraries then
+please use the --disable-shared configure option.
 
 The adnsresfilter utility uses `tsearch' from the C library (a la SVID
 and X/Open).  If your C library doesn't have tsearch you will find
@@ -75,7 +95,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with userv as the file COPYING; if not, email me at the address
+along with adns as the file COPYING; if not, email me at the address
 above or write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place -
 Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.