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authorpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-11 12:24:21 +0000
committerpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-11 12:24:21 +0000
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Import cvs-1.10.7. There are a number of nasty bugs that have been fixed.
Obtained from: cyclic.com
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@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ can set the TESTDIR environment variable to the desired location
before running them.
You will probably need GNU expr, which is part of the GNU sh-utils
-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.
+package. This is just for running the tests; CVS itself doesn't
+require expr.
+
+With CVS 1.10 people also had trouble with the Solaris sort program
+not behaving the way that the testsuite expects (with Solaris, lines
+starting with tabs sort before blank lines).
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
@@ -144,3 +145,8 @@ workaround).
b. pass stdin to the program under test (sanity.sh, again, handles
this by bypassing dotest).
+
+c. have a send-expect type dialog with the program under test
+ (e.g. see server-7 or pserver-4 which want to talk the CVS
+ protocol, or the many tests which need to answer the prompt of "cvs
+ release", e.g. deep-5).
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