To compile abook you must have ncurses developement libraries installed.
Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is known to compile with the native curses
library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD. Since version 0.5.0 GNU readline is
-required.
+required. Please note that other readline implementations don't work.
If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should redirect standard error
-to somewhere. (for example abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null. Abook has
+to somewhere. (for example abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null) Abook has
been compiled and tested successfully on following platforms:
(NOTE: All versions of abook haven't been tested on all platforms.)
-Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1/2.2, RedHat 6.x)
-Solaris 2.4
-Solaris 2.5
-Solaris 2.6
-FreeBSD 3.3 (newer versions should be OK)
+Linux (Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat Linux, all other distributions with GNU ncurses
+ and GNU readline should work)
+Darwin
+Solaris
+FreeBSD
OpenBSD
-NetBSD (reportedly requires ncurses to work properly)
+NetBSD
+GNU/Hurd
AIX 3.2.5
HPUX
Irix 6.5
DEC alpha ?
-GNU/Hurd
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