[groff] 01/07: INSTALL.extra: Add advice for Solaris 10 users.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit dcd7768218e6360b491d3ea7703041e686d38760
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 15 11:52:39 2023 -0600

    INSTALL.extra: Add advice for Solaris 10 users.
    
    We can drop this in early 2024 when Oracle EOLs Solaris 10.
    
    
https://blogs.oracle.com/support/post/extended-support-for-oracle-solaris-10-operating-system
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 INSTALL.extra | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL.extra b/INSTALL.extra
index e0bcbeb40..60c0f815a 100644
--- a/INSTALL.extra
+++ b/INSTALL.extra
@@ -226,11 +226,23 @@ directory) will have a log file called
 To re-run a test, change to the top of the build directory (if
 necessary) and run the test by name from the shell prompt.
 
+[Solaris 10 users _must_ run the test scripts by hand since the /bin/sh
+and utilities on that system are not conformant to the POSIX standard.]
+
 For example, to rerun the test mentioned above from a "build" directory
 I created as a subdirectory in the source tree, I would do this.
 
   (cd build && ../tmac/tests/localization-works.sh)
 
+[Solaris 10 users will need to put /usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/xpg6/bin in the
+$PATH and pass the test scripts as arguments to a POSIX-conforming
+shell.
+
+  (cd build && PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH /usr/xpg4/bin/sh \
+   ../tmac/tests/localization-works.sh)
+
+You might wish to write a small shell script to facilitate the process.]
+
 I can view the test log as follows.
 
   cat build/tmac/tests/localization-works.sh.log