tests: Solaris grep doesn't add a trailing newline when it's missing The bad-extension tests emits a list of not-loaded extensions, and pipes that output through grep. On Solaris, the test-output gets "(no-eol)" appended because although the message has no trailing newline, GNU grep adds it. If we simply add the newline to the message, the problem goes away for both versions of grep.

tests: Solaris cmp complains about empty files, even with -s When you compare an empty file, such as /dev/null, with a non-empty file, Solaris cmp complains on stderr with "cmp: EOF on /dev/null", even if the -s argument is present. GNU cmp makes the complaint, but silences it with -s. We can change the pdiff utility to simply redirect stderr to /dev/null so that we don't have to worry about this difference in the test files.

tests: Solaris sed does not support "\n" meaning newline in the RHS of s/// The blackbox test rewrites a copy of test-dispatch.py on the fly, and adds a couple of lines with the s/// command. GNU sed supports the use of the \n escape to represent a newline, but not Solaris sed. Using a literal newline, prefixed by a backslash, works with both versions of the utility.