[M3devel] Looking for CM3 Tinderbox regression test participants, was: Re: M3 concerns

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> Solaris does not have %s for date -- we need an alternative for that
> usage in tinderbox-build.sh.

You mean as in date -u +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S?

It's used quite often:
% grep -l date scripts/regression/*.sh
scripts/regression/defs.sh
scripts/regression/tinderbox-build.sh
scripts/regression/tinderbox-status.sh
scripts/regression/update_changelog.sh
scripts/regression/update_m3tests.sh
scripts/regression/update_pkg_status.sh
scripts/regression/update_snapshot_status.sh

Would it be possible, as a work-around, to install the GNU tools
(date, sed, awk etc.)?

I should have known something will fail on Solaris, because the
standard command line utilities they ship are still bug-compatible
to those from the 80s :-/ We've had lots of problems with them
at one of our customers, too, and just installed openpkg as a stable
environment. But I think GNU command line utilties should also
be available as a Solaris package.

If this is the only problem or if you cannot install an alternative
environment, we'll have to do something about date. I'll make some
tests later when I have access to a SPARC.

Olaf
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