Re: cvs-1.11 and Sun Solaris 2.7

[Larry Jones]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> 
> Most succeeded.  However, on Sun Solaris 2.7, the check failed like
> this:
> 
>       % make check
>       ...
>       /bin/sh ./sanity.sh `pwd`/cvs
>       This test should produce no other output than this line, and a final 
> "OK".
>       id: illegal option -- u
>       Usage: id [user]
>              id -a [user]
>       Notice: The default version of id is defective, using
>       /usr/local/bin/gid instead.
>       lid: invalid option -- u
>       Try `lid --help' for more information.
>       expr: RE error
>       Test suite does not work correctly when run by a username
>       containing regular expression meta-characters.
>       make[1]: *** [check] Error 1

Sun is fond of having ancient non-standard versions of commands be the
default, even though they have perfectly good stadard versions of them
in other directories.  You'll have much more luck if you put
/usr/xpg4/bin in your $PATH ahead of /usr/bin.  (And why is something
called "lid" installed as /usr/local/bin/gid?  sanity.sh thought it had
found GNU id, but obviously it found something else, instead.)

-Larry Jones

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. -- Calvin