test failues with terminfo on solaris

Danek Duvall duvall at comfychair.org
Mon Jun 27 13:50:16 CDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 01:41:05PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:

> 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.

I can't argue with that, but I don't think that has any bearing on Mads'
comment.  I'm not sure what behavior he's expecting from environment
inheritance that he's not getting.

Thanks,
Danek


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