Commit Briefs
use test(1) -eq and -ne to compare integers, and reduce quoting
This brings the rest of the regression test scripts in line with patch.sh.
regress: use gdate/gln if on *BSD
To minimise the amount of churn between the difference in date(1) and ln(n) semantics, use gdate and gln from coreutils.
regress: fix test failures using date(1)
This patch fixes test failures related the date(1) utility. In the long term we could add a wrapper function to detect valid options for date(1) and use the variant which works on the current OS. For now, this makes some tests pass and shows us where the problems are. OK thomas.adam
add a -q option to tests for quiet output and use it for 'make regress'
Previous default output remains when test cases are run individually. ok tracey