Chances of build success on non-Unix platforms

[John Poltorak]

Is there any place I can search to find if an app has been succesfully 
built with autoconf+friends on a non-Unix platform?

I'm thinking of trying to build Tar 1.13 and see refences to DOS but have 
no way of telling whether they are purely historical, (going back to the 
last millenium  :-) ) or whether there is any likelihood of success 
nowadays.


Is there a tar mailing list around, BTW?

-- 
John