Re: cvs-1.11.13 test failure (basic2-64)

[Derek Robert Price]

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Paul Jarc wrote:

>lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com (Larry Jones) wrote:
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>>Indeed.  If you're going to set $TESTDIR, you should set it to an actual
>>path, not one containing symlinks.
>
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>I'd say a path containing symlinks is just as "actual" as any other,
>and I'd rather see this fixed than not.  But if not, I can live with
>that - I know why the test fails, I know it isn't a real problem, and
>I can work around it - but others might be confused, and more
>importantly, it seems this also causes all further tests to be
>skipped, which might hide a real problem.  Shouldn't the rest of the
>tests be performed regardless of whether this test fails?


I went to pretty great lengths recently to make sanity.sh symlink
agnostic, so I think that it is the test that is broken in this case,
not CVS.  I'm not certain, but it feels right that history should be
logging a true path and not indirections.

I think perhaps setting $NOLINK_TESTDIR and using those values for any
history tests would be appropriate.  Patches gleefully accepted!

Derek

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