trying to improve mandoc Solaris support

Dagobert Michelsen via buildfarm buildfarm at lists.opencsw.org
Wed Mar 18 15:41:30 CET 2015


Hi Ingo,

> Am 18.03.2015 um 15:13 schrieb Ingo Schwarze <schwarze at usta.de>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is the maintainer of mandoc (mdocml.bsd.lv) speaking.
> 
> For the last few years, the result of asking for release testing
> of mandoc has consistently been that a large fraction of portability
> issues reported, and in particular usually the most severe ones,
> up to and including incomplete POSIX support, were related to
> commercial SUN Solaris or Oracle Solaris platforms - compared to
> that, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly very rarely cause
> portability issues, and the issues that arise on Linux are typically
> easy to solve.  Even illumos appears to be less hostile to foreign
> software than commercial Solaris...
> 
> So it might make sense that i do systematic testing of mandoc
> on commercial Solaris.  Is that possible with your project?
> A Solaris 10 user (Sevan Janiyan) pointed me to
> 
>  http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/
> 
> which seems to indicate just that.

Sure, our buildfarm is equipped with Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 both
Sparc and x86 and multiple compilers. Just send me your ssh public
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Best regards

  — Dago

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