Thanks, Peter! I spotted a minor typo: comiple. Also, I recommend including a date to give more substance to the phrase: "At the time of writing". - Vin On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:34:55 +0100 > Peter Stephenson wrote: > > MACHINES is never going to be complete, because we're relying on > > reports of problems from the field, but it is intended to be accurate > > and useful, which it isn't at the moment. It could probably be > > truncated to a note saying it's a placeholder for reports of issues > > in installation that need to be worked around --- which do get > > reported now and then --- and a request for updates. > > Here's a possible short version --- I've included the entire file. > It's largely to encourage people to report problems they find > (though usually configuration problems we find out about tend > to get fixed). I'm assuming the OS-specific information that was there > is too ancient to be of any use. > > I deleted a paragraph about upgrading gcc with the OS as it's irrelevant > if gcc comes with the distribution and the days of needing to install > gcc separately are largely numbered. I also changed the set of machines > I think are "reasonably well covered" nowadays. > > pws > > > ----------------------------- > ZSH ON SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURES > ----------------------------- > > This file is to record difficulties in compiling and installing zsh on > specific architectures. > > The information in this list may be out of date, as the developers do 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 > and BSD derivatives including MacOS are reasonably well covered. > > At the time of writing zsh is believed to comiple on all up-to-date > Unix-like operating systems. Please let us know of any exceptions. > > The intended format of entries is thus: > > Vendor: OS & version (hardware type) [zsh version tried] > information >