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@@ -115,6 +115,20 @@ malfunction. See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/db/61/61193.html>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +* gdiffmk doesn't work on FreeBSD; I get errors from "expr". + +gdiffmk uses the expr(1) command to parse its arguments. FreeBSD has +extended the syntax of its expr command in a non-backward compatible way +that it claims better conforms with POSIX's utility syntax guidelines +with respect to option processing: however, POSIX mandates no options +for expr. Other implementations of expr do not support traditional +Unix-style options ('-a', '-b', ...), and perhaps as a consequence do +not follow FreeBSD's interpretation of the guidelines. You way want to +set $EXPR_COMPAT in your shell environment. We hope to have a +workaround for this behavior in a future release. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + * My document says that the current year is 19100, not 2000. In groff, as in traditional troff, the yr number register yields the |