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

[Larry Jones]

Derek R. Price writes:
> 
> What basically needs to be done is that an eval_line_by_line function needs 
> to be ported into sanity.sh.  Then that
> function can be called on the output of any failed test for more useful 
> output.  It could also be wrapped to create a
> dotest_line_by_line that almost works (see '\n' notes above) and could be 
> used on inordinately long tests, such as
> multiroot-log-1, one when necessary.  Incidentally, this dotest_line_by_line 
> should make it trivial to write a sanity.sh
> that works with the Solaris version of expr, assuming my assumption about few 
> of the tests requiring .* to match a line
> feed is correct.

Note that sanity.sh already contains a dotest_line_by_line function. 
It's used by dotest_internal_debug, which is a plug-compatible
replacement for dotest_internal that can be used for debugging (it's
significantly slower, which is why it isn't used by default).  While
there aren't a lot of tests that need .* to match newline, I think there
are more than a few.

-Larry Jones

I've got more brains than I know what to do with. -- Calvin