Solaris package, was Re: Mercurial 1.3 released!

[David Champion]

* On 05 Jul 2009, Mads Kiilerich wrote: 
> rupert.thurner wrote, On 07/04/2009 08:13 PM:
> > we tried to package it for solaris, http://opencsw.org. some test
> > cases fail. some failures are because the test suite did not use /opt/
> > csw/bin/gdiff, but "diff" from solaris. how do we specify the diff
> > tool used, or the path to it?
> 
> The testsuite uses whatever diff tool is in its path. So you could just 
> set PATH correctly before running the test suite.

Ideally the test suite would not depend on non-POSIX extensions to POSIX
commands.  Would a patch to the tests be feasible and acceptable?

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