Paul Kinsley writes:
>
> I am thinking of using CVS on an IRIX system, but am concerned that
> the CVS test suite ( make check ) fails. The first failure is on
> the test importc-8. The failure on importc-8 is related to
> the dates rolling over.
Most test failures are caused by broken or obsolete tools rather than by
actual cvs problems. In the case of importc-8, the problem is almost
certainly that your ``touch'' command is not Y2K compliant. You can see
if SGI has a patch that will fix it, or you can use the GNU version of
touch instead.
> Are the tests well regarded/used/somthing to worry about?
Yes. The test suite is run every night on BSD/OS, HP-UX, IRIX, and
Solaris, and any problems are promptly addressed.
> Oddly enough, under linux ( which ran the whole suite without errors )
> backuprecover core dumps if I try to run it alone, outside of the
> standard
> "make check" test course.
I'd be very interested to hear more details about that failure -- the
tests don't often get run individually and some interdependencies have
been know to sneak in from time to time, but I just ran backuprecover on
BSD/OS with no problems.
-Larry Jones
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. -- Calvin
