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                         ***  PRELIMINARY  ***


                    Building Hercules-390 for AIX 5.3
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    1. Standard AIX systems do not have autoconf, automake, zlib
       or bzip2 libraries and headers; these can be downloaded
       from <http://www.oss4aix.org/download/latest/aix53/> and
       installed using rpm (rpm is part of AIX 5.3).

       Autoconf/automake require some pre-requisites, such as gettext,
       info, m4, libsigsegv and expat; all these could be downloaded
       and installed from the same place.


    2. Enter the configure and make commands to build/install Hercules:
    
          ./configure  &&  make  &&  make install

       (or you can run each command separately if you want).


    3. That's it! Enjoy your private mainframe. :)


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 The above is based on efforts done by Alexey Bozrikov [bozy@fgm.com.cy],
 Harold Grovesteen [h.grovsteen@tx.rr.com] and Fish [fish@softdevlabs.com]
 on the Hercules-390 Yahoo group list during the month of October 2009.

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Still remaining TODO:

  - Get SCSI tape working: resolve <sys/mtio.h> header & 'struct mtget' issue(s).

      #if defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )
      #else // !defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )
      #endif // defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )

  - Test networking (did you do this yet Alexey?)