diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 37c40055..ba187bbb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -90,21 +90,15 @@ XZ Utils Installation 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. + Version 3.3.0 and later are supported. - 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 - . + Multithreading isn't supported because MINIX 3 doesn't have + pthreads. The option --disable-threads must be passed to configure + as this isn't autodetected. - 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. - - See section 5.4 in this file about symbol visibility warnings (you - may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure). + Note that disabling threads causes "make check" to show a few tests + as skipped ("SKIP"). It's only due to a few threading-dependent + subtests are skipped. See the matching tests/test_*.log files. 1.2.4. OpenVMS