Author: matthew
Date: 2011-01-23 04:55:37 -0700 (Sun, 23 Jan 2011)
New Revision: 9448

Modified:
   trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
   trunk/BOOK/chapter06/man-db.xml
Log:
Ignore failing tests in Man-DB. Fixes #2823.

Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml  2011-01-23 11:54:58 UTC (rev 9447)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml  2011-01-23 11:55:37 UTC (rev 9448)
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@
       <para>2011-01-23</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] Ignore failing tests in Man-DB as they're only due to
+          a change in Groff-1.21's warning output.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2823">#2823</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] Change password hashing from MD5 to SHA-512. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2814">#2814</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>

Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/man-db.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/man-db.xml     2011-01-23 11:54:58 UTC (rev 9447)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/man-db.xml     2011-01-23 11:55:37 UTC (rev 9448)
@@ -82,8 +82,11 @@
 
    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Note that 2 tests are known to fail as they rely on warnings output
+    from Groff, which changed slightly in Groff-1.21.</para>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

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