Portability notes for tpop3d
$Id: PORTABILITY,v 1.6 2001/10/27 15:54:50 chris Exp $

These notes are probably not so relevant now that tpop3d can be configured with
autoconf. They remain here for interest:

I wrote tpop3d on Linux, and that is the platform on which it has been tested
most thoroughly. However, if you want to build it on another platform, please
go right ahead. You may need to make some tweaks (mostly in the Makefile,
hopefully). Here is what I know about compiling tpop3d on other platforms, so
far:

* FreeBSD (and probably other modern BSD systems)

  You will need to comment out the Makefile line which enables flock(2)
  locking, since FreeBSD implements this with fcntl(2) locking; attempting to
  use both therefore causes tpop3d to deadlock.

  You will need to remove the reference to -ldl, which does not exist on
  FreeBSD (on Linux it is needed to link against PAM with dynamic libraries
  support).

  You will probably want to change the definition oF MAILSPOOL_DIR to be
  "/var/mail".

* Solaris (2)

  You will need to disable flock(2) locking, since Solaris does not support
  this except in BSD compatibility mode (I have not attempted to build tpop3d
  in BSD mode). On Solaris, PINE etc. use fcntl locking, so you will need to
  enable this option too.

  You will also need to link with libnsl and libsocket (-lnsl and -lsocket),
  and probably change MAILSPOOL_DIR to "/var/mail".

* Mac OS X (darwin)

  Have a look at README.darwin.

* Others

  You tell me....