Paul Sander writes:
>
> I have also had problems not with the regression suite itself but with
> the verification of output. It seems that when the test suite invokes
> CVS, it merges stdout and stderr and compares the result to a regular
> expression. The problem is that the way the bytes are interspersed is
> unpredictable, so there is a huge number of false failures.
That used to be a problem, but there were a number of changes made to
the test script to avoid the problem. Have you seen this lately?
> I've also discovered a timing condition in which the test suite must run
> to completion when both the local time zone and GMT share the same date.
> In my time zone, it means I cannot run the suite successfully between
> mid-afternoon and midnight.
I wasn't aware of this problem -- could you provide some more details,
please? (There *is* a problem where the rcs2-7 test fails if you run it
on a day of the month that doesn't exist in the month 100 months later,
but there isn't any practical way of fixing it and it happens so rarely
that there isn't much point in worrying about it.)
-Larry Jones
Santa's gonna skip this block for years. -- Calvin
