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commit 9b08db644e198cdc60fa0343990a69d051ee9b4d
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 8 05:23:54 2026 -0500
ANNOUNCE,PROBLEMS: Tweak Solaris testing advice.
Thanks to Bruno Haible for the discussion.
---
ANNOUNCE | 2 +-
PROBLEMS | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index d751a244f..0d709e08a 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Caveats
to build on Solaris 10 or 11. See the "PROBLEMS" file in the
distribution archive.
-* Solaris 10 has known problems with automated tests; see the
+* Solaris 10 and 11 have known problems with automated tests; see the
"PROBLEMS" file in the distribution archive.
diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS
index 8003a6078..06162b0e4 100644
--- a/PROBLEMS
+++ b/PROBLEMS
@@ -922,8 +922,10 @@ The test suite expects a POSIX-conforming shell and
utilities. Solaris
10 does not offer these in the default $PATH. We try to use features
standardized no later than POSIX Issue 4 (1994). Unfortunately even
that is too recent for some implementations. Solaris 11 has a (mostly)
-conforming shell. It may help to ensure that "/usr/xpg6/bin" and
-"/usr/xpg4/bin" precede "/usr/bin" in the $PATH when building groff.
+conforming shell. It may help to ensure that "/usr/xpg4/bin" precedes
+"/usr/bin" in the $PATH when making this target.
+
+ $ PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH make check
For Solaris 10, it is necessary to modify the shell-based test scripts
in place to use a conforming shell. Here is an example.
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