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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 15 | ||||
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@@ -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 |