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authorpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1999-03-18 09:21:42 +0000
committerpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1999-03-18 09:21:42 +0000
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Import cvs-1.10 onto vendor branch. Merge to follow shortly.
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@@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ disks are slow or over-loaded.
The tests work in /tmp/cvs-sanity (which the tests create) by default.
If for some reason you want them to work in a different directory, you
can set the TESTDIR environment variable to the desired location
-before running them. In particular, using SGI's Irix 6, the tests
-will fail if TESTDIR is an XFS filesystem (which /tmp often is);
-you'll want to set TESTDIR to a non-XFS filesystem.
+before running them.
You will probably need GNU expr, which is part of the GNU sh-utils
-package (this is just for running the tests; CVS itself doesn't use
-expr).
+package. You may also need sort from the GNU textutils; Solaris
+in particular has been reported to have a sort program which does not
+behave the way that the testsuite expects (with Solaris, lines
+starting with tabs sort before blank lines). These programs are just
+for running the tests; CVS itself doesn't require expr or sort.
If there is some unexpected output, that is a failure which can be
somewhat hard to track down. Finding out which test is producing the
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