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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-03-06 15:58:10 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-03-06 15:58:10 +0000
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mention Solaris BUGS in regress.pl(1)
-rw-r--r--INSTALL7
-rw-r--r--regress/regress.pl.122
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 558574b9..3c09f3f2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.22 2018/07/31 15:34:00 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2019/03/06 15:58:10 schwarze Exp $
About the portable mandoc distribution
--------------------------------------
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tech@ mailing list, too.
Enjoy using the mandoc toolset!
-Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, August 2018
+Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, March 2019
Installation
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ variables into "configure.local" and go back to step 4.
7. Optionally run the regression suite.
Basically, that amounts to "cd regress && ./regress.pl".
But you should probably look at "./mandoc -l regress/regress.pl.1"
-first.
+first. In particular, regarding Solaris systems, look at the BUGS
+section of that manual page.
8. Run "sudo make install". If you intend to build a binary
package using some kind of fake root mechanism, you may need a
diff --git a/regress/regress.pl.1 b/regress/regress.pl.1
index 6870b4cb..04a56912 100644
--- a/regress/regress.pl.1
+++ b/regress/regress.pl.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: regress.pl.1,v 1.3 2017/07/18 18:47:06 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: regress.pl.1,v 1.4 2019/03/06 15:58:11 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 6 2019 $
.Dt REGRESS.PL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -145,3 +145,21 @@ The
subdirectory of the regression suite is not included.
It uses a Makefile structure that differs vastly from the
rest of the suite.
+.Sh BUGS
+On Oracle Solaris 11,
+.Xr diff 1
+does not support the
+.Fl a
+option.
+Delete that option from the following line in this script:
+.Pp
+.Dl my @diff = qw(diff -au);
+.Pp
+The C library function
+.Xr wcwidth 3
+is known to be buggy on Solaris, which may cause failures in the
+regression suite, usually because output lines containing affected
+Unicode characters wrap too early.
+.Pp
+The regression suite does not work at all on Solaris 10 or earlier
+because the Perl interpreter provided with those systems is too old.