Avoid spurious failure on x86 solaris2.9 when using c89.

diff --git a/tests/misc/split-fail b/tests/misc/split-fail
index 93cf8d6f016ad40351c195e496920d053a89991a..fdefe61c31869e561b2afd6000dc62870eaa74c4 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/misc/split-fail
+++ b/tests/misc/split-fail
@@ -50,8 +50,17 @@ split --bytes=$_4gb in || fail=1
 
 # Make sure that a huge obsolete option evokes the right failure.
 env -u _POSIX2_VERSION split -99999999999999999991 2> out && fail=1
+
+# On losing systems (x86 solaris 2.9 c89), we get a message like this:
+#   split: line count option -9999999999... is too large
+# while on most, we get this:
+#   split: line count option -99999999999999999991... is too large
+# so map them both to -99*1...
+sed 's/99[19]*/99*/' out > out-t
+mv -f out-t out
+
 cat <<\EOF > exp
-split: line count option -99999999999999999991... is too large
+split: line count option -99*... is too large
 EOF
 cmp out exp || fail=1
 test $fail = 1 && diff out exp 2> /dev/null