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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-11 01:39:00 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-11 01:39:00 +0000
commit1898ad520c080ec1da6fad8c0b4e0b6644672104 (patch)
tree770318e8c67a960df906c4824528afdea70e8ae5 /INSTALL
parenta48dab80b41e90194711a45e5012659b7a83da4f (diff)
downloadmandoc-1898ad520c080ec1da6fad8c0b4e0b6644672104.tar.gz
Provide a fallback version of fts(3) for systems lacking it.
I chose the OpenBSD version because it apparently contains various bugfixes that never made it into libnbcompat. To reduce size and complexity, i stripped out the features we don't need.
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@@ -57,10 +57,8 @@ problems, apropos(1) is fully usable with SQLite 3.7.5. Versions
older than 3.7.5 may or may not work, they have not been tested.
1.2. The fts(3) directory traversion functions.
-A compatibility version will be bundled for 1.13.2 but is not available
-yet. If you want apropos(1) and makewhatis(8) but do not have fts(3),
-please stay with mandoc 1.12.3 for now and upgrade first to 1.12.4,
-then to 1.13.2 when these versionns are released. Be careful: the
+If your system does not have them, the bundled compatibility version
+will be used, so you need not worry in that case. But be careful: the
glibc version of fts(3) is known to be broken on 32bit platforms,
see <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838>.