test failues with terminfo on solaris

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:45 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> 
> > This dependency to the environment is unfortunate. Setting TERM in
> > run-tests.py or test-ui-color.py do however not make the test
> > independent of the shell TERM value. It seems like solaris has its
> > own idea of how environment variables should be inherited...
> 
> I don't understand what you mean.  Environment variables work on Solaris
> just like they do everywhere else.  What behavior are you expecting but not
> getting?

Historically, Solaris hasn't supported unsetenv and various tools like
Python have lagged its introduction. There are a few hacks in our
codebase related to this.

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