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Lasse Collin be29fac96d INSTALL: Clarify that --disable-assembler affects only 32-bit x86.
(cherry picked from commit 00440f52be)
(cherry picked from commit a8b3fb6d2f)
2024-05-22 00:28:10 +03:00
Lasse Collin 090ea9ddd3 Change a few HTTP URLs to HTTPS.
The xz man page timestamp was intentionally left unchanged.
2023-03-18 22:00:28 +08:00
Lasse Collin 69d694e5f1 Update INSTALL for Windows and DOS and add preliminary info for z/OS. 2020-03-15 18:18:29 +02:00
Lasse Collin 609c706785 xz: Enable Capsicum sandboxing by default if available.
It has been enabled in FreeBSD for a while and reported to work fine.

Thanks to Xin Li.
2020-02-05 20:21:56 +02:00
Lasse Collin c9a8071e66 Scripts: Put /usr/xpg4/bin to the beginning of PATH on Solaris.
This adds a configure option --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX
which defaults to empty except on Solaris it is /usr/xpg4/bin
to make POSIX grep and others available. The Solaris case had
been documented in INSTALL with a manual fix but it's better
to do this automatically since it is needed on most Solaris
systems anyway.

Thanks to Daniel Richard G.
2019-12-31 22:31:30 +02:00
Lasse Collin 9ccbae4100 Mention potential sandboxing bugs in INSTALL. 2016-12-28 21:05:22 +02:00
Lasse Collin 8e0f1af3dc Document --enable-sandbox configure option in INSTALL. 2016-12-26 20:50:25 +02:00
Lasse Collin 74f8dad9f9 liblzma: Disable external SHA-256 by default.
This is the sane thing to do. The conflict with OpenSSL
on some OSes and especially that the OS-provided versions
can be significantly slower makes it clear that it was
a mistake to have the external SHA-256 support enabled by
default.

Those who want it can now pass --enable-external-sha256 to
configure. INSTALL was updated with notes about OSes where
this can be a bad idea.

The SHA-256 detection code in configure.ac had some bugs that
could lead to a build failure in some situations. These were
fixed, although it doesn't matter that much now that the
external SHA-256 is disabled by default.

MINIX >= 3.2.0 uses NetBSD's libc and thus has SHA256_Init
in libc instead of libutil. Support for the libutil version
was removed.
2016-06-28 21:09:46 +03:00
Lasse Collin 98001740ca Windows: Update the docs. 2015-09-25 14:03:24 +03:00
Lasse Collin aae6a6aeda Update Solaris notes in INSTALL.
Mention the possible "make check" failure on Solaris in the
Solaris-specific section of INSTALL. It was already in
section 4.5 but it is better mention it in the OS-specific
section too.
2014-12-30 11:17:16 +02:00
Lasse Collin 7815112153 Build: POSIX shell isn't required if scripts are disabled. 2014-12-26 12:00:05 +02:00
Lasse Collin 29b95d5d66 Update INSTALL about the dependencies of the scripts. 2014-12-20 20:43:14 +02:00
Lasse Collin 3af91040bb Windows: Update build instructions. 2014-12-20 20:42:33 +02:00
Lasse Collin e4fc1d2f95 Update INSTALL about a "make check" failure in test_scripts.sh. 2014-11-28 20:07:18 +02:00
Lasse Collin 56056571df Build: Add --disable-doc to configure. 2014-04-25 17:44:26 +03:00
Lasse Collin 6de61d8721 Update INSTALL.
Add a note about failing "make check". The source of
the problem should be fixed in libtool (if it really is
a libtool bug and not mine) but I'm unable to spend time
on that for now. Thanks to Nelson H. F. Beebe for reporting
the issue.

Add a note about a possible need to run "ldconfig" after
"make install".
2014-04-24 18:06:24 +03:00
Lasse Collin 6b44b4a775 Add native threading support on Windows.
Now liblzma only uses "mythread" functions and types
which are defined in mythread.h matching the desired
threading method.

Before Windows Vista, there is no direct equivalent to
pthread condition variables. Since this package doesn't
use pthread_cond_broadcast(), pre-Vista threading can
still be kept quite simple. The pre-Vista code doesn't
use anything that wasn't already available in Windows 95,
so the binaries should run even on Windows 95 if someone
happens to care.
2013-09-17 11:52:28 +03:00
Lasse Collin 4a238dd9b2 Document --enable-symbol-versions in INSTALL. 2012-07-04 17:05:46 +03:00
Lasse Collin 8c5b13ad59 Docs: Update MINIX 3 information in INSTALL. 2012-04-19 13:58:55 +03:00
Lasse Collin 2dcea03712 Fix compiling with IBM XL C on AIX. 2012-02-22 12:00:16 +02:00
Lasse Collin 830ba58777 Update INSTALL with a note about linker problem on OpenSolaris x86. 2011-05-17 12:21:33 +03:00
Lasse Collin 85cdf7dd4e Update INSTALL with another note about IRIX. 2011-03-31 15:06:58 +03:00
Lasse Collin ce34ec4f54 Update docs. 2010-10-19 10:21:08 +03:00
Lasse Collin 8dad2fd693 Updated INSTALL. 2010-09-10 14:30:07 +03:00
Lasse Collin 507a4a4dea Windows: build.sh is a bash script so name it correctly. 2010-07-27 20:45:03 +03:00
Lasse Collin 0d3489efca Updated INSTALL. 2010-05-10 19:57:24 +03:00
Lasse Collin 9886d436ff Change the default of --enable-assume-ram from 32 to 128 MiB.
This is to allow files created with "xz -9" to be decompressed
if the amount of RAM cannot be determined.
2010-03-07 13:34:34 +02:00
Lasse Collin 2901a8e7e8 Updated INSTALL. 2010-01-31 23:31:14 +02:00
Lasse Collin 29fd321033 Add support for --enable-assume-ram=SIZE. 2009-10-02 14:35:56 +03:00
Lasse Collin 5e000ff00d Added OpenVMS-specific information to INSTALL. 2009-09-22 18:59:56 +03:00
Lasse Collin 173368911c Mention in INSTALL that --enable-small doesn't modify CFLAGS. 2009-09-02 09:43:51 +03:00
Lasse Collin 2331f5f97a Add more OS/2 specific info to INSTALL. 2009-08-30 17:28:52 +03:00
Lasse Collin 66da129c8e Updated INSTALL and PACKAGERS to match the changes
made in --enable-dynamic.
2009-08-13 15:15:37 +03:00
Lasse Collin 99f9e879a6 Major documentation update.
Installation and packaging instructions were added.
README and other generic docs were revised.

Some of the documentation files are now installed to $docdir.
2009-07-19 13:14:20 +03:00