Re: CVS 1.11 sanity.sh fails at multiroot-log-1 under HPUX 10.20

[Derek R. Price]

Mike Castle wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:46:13PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> > On many systems, the environment counts against the maximum argument
> > length limit; if you've got a lot of enviroment variables or some with
> > very long definitions, try deleting them before running the tests.  (You
> > may find env -i [some versions use - instead of -i] to be a handy way to
> > do that.)
>
> Should the sanity test cases do that by default?

Not sure.  At the least you'd have to worry about either getting a few
variables like TESTDIR, AWK, & CVS_RSH into the test script itself past your
'env -i' bootstrap or bury the 'env -i' call in the do_test's and then make
sure you get CVS_RSH & c. into the individual calls to CVS.

The bootstrap method would probably be more robust since some of the tests
call external functions directly then call 'pass' or 'fail' based on $?.
It's possible you'd also have to make exceptions to pass through variables
which configure awk, sed, diff, troff, and any other tools used by sanity.sh,
but maybe not as sanity.sh already overrides variables like LC_ALL to insure
uniformity of operation across platforms.

Derek

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