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-rw-r--r--INSTALL15
-rw-r--r--configure.local.example2
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2f353aeb..9d793956 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tech@ mailing list, too.
Enjoy using the mandoc toolset!
-Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, March 2019
+Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, September 2021
Installation
@@ -65,10 +65,15 @@ installed to the intended places. Otherwise, put some *DIR or *NM*
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. In particular, regarding Solaris systems, look at the BUGS
-section of that manual page.
+Basically, that amounts to "make regress" to do a standard regression
+run, running all tests. For more fine-grained control,
+read "./mandoc -l regress/regress.pl.1",
+then run "cd regress && ./regress.pl" with optional arguments.
+The regression suite requires a reasonably modern Perl interpreter.
+Examples of systems that are too old to run the regression suite
+include Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
+On Solaris 11, the suite does run, but some tests fail;
+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/configure.local.example b/configure.local.example
index 990d70be..8ca039a4 100644
--- a/configure.local.example
+++ b/configure.local.example
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ CGIBINDIR="${WWWPREFIX}/cgi-bin"
# To enable it, use the following line.
# It does not work on SunOS 5.10 because there is no mkdirat(2)
# nor on SunOS 5.9 which also lacks CMSG_LEN(3) and CMSG_SPACE(3).
+# It may not work on old releases of Mac OS X either. For example,
+# Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger provides neither mkdirat(2) nor openat(2).
BUILD_CATMAN=1