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@@ -11,41 +11,8 @@ way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the
windows way.
If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from
-the Win32 header below. All other systems should be capable of being installed
-as described in the the UNIX header.
-
-PORTS
-=====
- Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and
- operating systems that curl has been compiled for:
-
- - Ultrix
- - SINIX-Z v5
- - Alpha DEC OSF 4
- - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2
- - Alpha FreeBSD 4.1
- - Alpha Linux 2.2.16
- - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1
- - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X
- - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
- - Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2
- - PowerPC Darwin 1.0
- - PowerPC Linux
- - PowerPC Mac OS X
- - Sparc Linux
- - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8
- - Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
- - i386 BeOS
- - i386 FreeBSD
- - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
- - i386 NetBSD
- - i386 OS/2
- - i386 OpenBSD
- - i386 Solaris 2.7
- - i386 Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000
- - ia64 Linux 2.3.99
- - m68k AmigaOS 3
- - m68k OpenBSD
+the Win32 or OS/2 headers further down. All other systems should be capable of
+being installed as described below.
UNIX
====
@@ -53,7 +20,9 @@ UNIX
The configure script *always* tries to find a working SSL library unless
explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default
search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
- special.
+ special:
+
+ ./configure
If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure
like:
@@ -101,9 +70,17 @@ UNIX
Use the executable `curl` in src/ directory.
- 'make install' copies the curl file to /usr/local/bin/ (or $prefix/bin if
- you used the --prefix option to configure) and copies the man pages, the
- lib and the include files to a suitable place too.
+ To install curl on your system, run
+
+ make install
+
+ This will copy curl to /usr/local/bin/ (or $prefix/bin if you used the
+ --prefix option to configure) and it copies the man pages, the lib and the
+ include files to suitable places.
+
+ To make sure everything runs as supposed, run the test suite:
+
+ make test
KNOWN PROBLEMS
@@ -259,6 +236,39 @@ IBM OS/2
If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
CFLAGS.
+PORTS
+=====
+ Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and
+ operating systems that curl has been compiled for:
+
+ - Ultrix
+ - SINIX-Z v5
+ - Alpha DEC OSF 4
+ - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2
+ - Alpha FreeBSD 4.1
+ - Alpha Linux 2.2.16
+ - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1
+ - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X
+ - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
+ - Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2
+ - PowerPC Darwin 1.0
+ - PowerPC Linux
+ - PowerPC Mac OS X
+ - Sparc Linux
+ - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8
+ - Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
+ - i386 BeOS
+ - i386 FreeBSD
+ - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
+ - i386 NetBSD
+ - i386 OS/2
+ - i386 OpenBSD
+ - i386 Solaris 2.7
+ - i386 Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000
+ - ia64 Linux 2.3.99
+ - m68k AmigaOS 3
+ - m68k OpenBSD
+
OpenSSL
=======