* tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
tests/uninstall-fail.test | 8 +++++---
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c3b041d..44240f9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
+ on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
+ directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
+
2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)'
diff --git a/tests/uninstall-fail.test b/tests/uninstall-fail.test
index a3e7a7a..a57b665 100755
--- a/tests/uninstall-fail.test
+++ b/tests/uninstall-fail.test
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
set -e
+mkdir d
+: > d/f
+chmod a-w d || skip "cannot make directories unwritable"
+rm -f d/f && skip_ "can delete files from unwritable directories"
+
cat >> configure.in << 'END'
AC_OUTPUT
END
@@ -46,9 +51,6 @@ mkdir $inst $inst/share
: > $inst/share/foobar.txt
chmod a-w $inst/share
-touch $inst/share/t && skip_ "cannot make directories unwritable"
-rm -f $inst/share/t
-
$MAKE uninstall >output 2>&1 && { cat output; Exit 1; }
cat output
grep "rm: .*foobar\.txt" output
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