approxidate_careful() reports errorneous date string

diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
index c1850d29239f8846c42b4552493d2d4898fa221e..c2ec3cb4bd97693ef8f8f25064297f019053e03a 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
+++ b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
@@ -10,17 +10,19 @@ cvs CLI client via git-cvsserver server'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
+if ! test_have_prereq PERL; then
+       say 'skipping git cvsserver tests, perl not available'
+       test_done
+fi
 cvs >/dev/null 2>&1
 if test $? -ne 1
 then
-    test_expect_success 'skipping git-cvsserver tests, cvs not found' :
+    say 'skipping git-cvsserver tests, cvs not found'
     test_done
-    exit
 fi
-perl -e 'use DBI; use DBD::SQLite' >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
-    test_expect_success 'skipping git-cvsserver tests, Perl SQLite interface unavailable' :
+"$PERL_PATH" -e 'use DBI; use DBD::SQLite' >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+    say 'skipping git-cvsserver tests, Perl SQLite interface unavailable'
     test_done
-    exit
 }
 
 unset GIT_DIR GIT_CONFIG
@@ -44,7 +46,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
   git add secondrootfile &&
   git commit -m "second root") &&
   git pull secondroot master &&
-  git clone -q --local --bare "$WORKDIR/.git" "$SERVERDIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
+  git clone -q --bare "$WORKDIR/.git" "$SERVERDIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
   GIT_DIR="$SERVERDIR" git config --bool gitcvs.enabled true &&
   GIT_DIR="$SERVERDIR" git config gitcvs.logfile "$SERVERDIR/gitcvs.log"
 '
@@ -267,7 +269,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gitcvs.ext.dbname' \
 
 rm -fr "$SERVERDIR"
 cd "$WORKDIR" &&
-git clone -q --local --bare "$WORKDIR/.git" "$SERVERDIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
+git clone -q --bare "$WORKDIR/.git" "$SERVERDIR" >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
 GIT_DIR="$SERVERDIR" git config --bool gitcvs.enabled true &&
 GIT_DIR="$SERVERDIR" git config gitcvs.logfile "$SERVERDIR/gitcvs.log" ||
 exit 1
@@ -424,7 +426,7 @@ cd "$WORKDIR"
 test_expect_success 'cvs update (-p)' '
     touch really-empty &&
     echo Line 1 > no-lf &&
-    echo -n Line 2 >> no-lf &&
+    printf "Line 2" >> no-lf &&
     git add really-empty no-lf &&
     git commit -q -m "Update -p test" &&
     git push gitcvs.git >/dev/null &&