=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/regress/regress.pl.1,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -p -r1.3 -r1.4 --- mandoc/regress/regress.pl.1 2017/07/18 18:47:06 1.3 +++ mandoc/regress/regress.pl.1 2019/03/06 15:58:11 1.4 @@ -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 .\" @@ -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.