On 8/20/2012 9:09 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:56:56PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >>>> Unfortunately, this was unlogged and scrolled out of my >>>> term's buffer - it then died with an EPERM trying to create >>>> test-suite.log.tmp so I've now started it again, after chown me >>>> ../automake-1.12.3. >>> So, in effect that is chown -R some-normal-user ../automake-1.12.x >>> >>> If you are interested, compare what we do for the coreutils tests. >>> [ if you aren't, I understand ] >>> >>> ?en >>> -- >>> das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce >>> >>> >>> >> Thanks for the really detailed replies Ken -- it's much appreciated. >> >> I'm building this when I have the spare time; I'll see if I can run the >> tests tonight and get back to you. >> >> Richard > Thanks, but perhaps not necessary - it seems to be a problem at my > end (see Bruce's response, and my reply to that). In particular, > the "run as a regular user" seems NOT to be the key. > > ĸen If running as a regular user isn't the key, and no one else is getting anywhere with it, them maybe it's a bug in Perl itself? What if they need to change how they read timezones, and how they read and make timestamps? It's the only thing I can think of that might be wrong at this point.
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