The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK),
which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils.
- MINIX 3.1.8 (and possibly some other versions too) has bugs in
- /usr/include/stdint.h, which has to be patched before XZ Utils
- can be compiled correctly. See
+ MINIX 3.1.8 and older have bugs in /usr/include/stdint.h, which has
+ to be patched before XZ Utils can be compiled correctly. See
<http://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=537>.
+ MINIX 3.2.0 and later use a different libc and aren't affected by
+ the above bug.
+
XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and
number of CPU cores on MINIX 3.