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Re: sanity.sh and dotest_lit


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: sanity.sh and dotest_lit
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:31:15 -0400 (EDT)

Mark D. Baushke writes:
> 
> The dotest_lit function was introduced in cvs 1.9 for tests deep-4,
> branches-3, multibranch-3. For cvs 1.8.1, there was no dotest_lit
> function and no multibranch-3 test, but deep-4 and branches-3 both used
> the dotest function.

Actually, dotest_lit is older than that, possibly as old as 1.7
something, but there don't seem to be any tags for those releases, so I
can't tell for sure.  dotest_lit was created because the regular dotest
was failing on at least one platform with "expr: arg list too long". 
Alas, I no longer remember which platform, but there's a fair chance it
was AT&T SysV/386, which is probably throughly defunct by now.

-Larry Jones

Don't you hate it when your boogers freeze? -- Calvin




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