Re: sanity failure

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Paul Edwards writes:
>  
>
> > Any ideas why sanity.sh failed on my system?  Good news
> > is that I found out where a suitable "id" resided (xgp4 or
> > something) and was able to set an ID= to make sanity work,
> > at least for the individual tests I wanted to run.
> >    
>
> If your default id command is deficient, it's quite likely that the
> default versions of other commands are deficient, too.  Rather than
> explicitly setting the ID executable, put the directory containing the
> good version at the beginning of your $PATH before running the tests so
> that you get the standards-conforming versions of all the commands.
>  

Though it wouldn't hurt to figure out which program is failing and why 
(again, I suspect expr) so that I can add a test at the beginning of 
sanity.sh and print a warning message about the broken program for others.

Derek

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