More SunOS 4.x info.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20889

diff --git a/README.solaris b/README.solaris
index 7e9b308..0064b24 100644 (file)
--- a/README.solaris
+++ b/README.solaris
@@ -608,6 +608,21 @@ As of Perl 5.8.1 the dynamic loading of libraries (DynaLoader, XSLoader)
 also seems to have become broken in in SunOS 4.x.  Therefore the default
 is to build Perl statically.
 
+Running the test suite in SunOS 4.1 is a bit tricky since the
+F<lib/Tie/File/t/09_gen_rs> test hangs (subtest #51, FWIW) for some
+unknown reason.  Just stop the test and kill that particular Perl
+process.
+
+There are various other failures, that as of SunOS 4.1.4 and gcc 3.2.2
+look a lot like gcc bugs.  Many of the failures happen in the Encode
+tests, where for example when the test expects "0" you get "&#48;"
+which should after a little squinting look very odd indeed.
+Another example is earlier in F<t/run/fresh_perl> where chr(0xff) is
+expected but the test fails because the result is chr(0xff).  Exactly.
+This is the "make test" result from the said combination:
+
+  Failed 27 test scripts out of 745, 96.38% okay.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 The original was written by Andy Dougherty F<doughera@lafayette.edu>