Re: coreutils-6.3: install: basic-1 fails

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Bauke Jan Douma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 cp: cannot open
 `/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd' for reading:

What are the permissions of that file?  That is, what is the output of
this command:

ls -l /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd

If dd itself is unreadable, can you figure out how that happened?


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Re: coreutils-6.3: install: basic-1 fails

2006-10-03 Thread Bauke Jan Douma

Jim Meyering wrote:

Bauke Jan Douma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Paul Eggert wrote:

Bauke Jan Douma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


cp: cannot open
`/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd' for reading:

What are the permissions of that file?  That is, what is the output
of
this command:
ls -l /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd

$ ls -l /sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd
-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 45532 Oct  3 18:06 
/sw/coreutils/coreutils-6.3/tests/install/../../src/dd


That file is readable only by root.
So if you're running tests as some other user, that would
explain the failure you saw.


Yes, I am running the tests as root, but apparently the basic-1
test re-runs itself as user nobody (65534), which explains the
failure.

Presently though that doesn't explain, to me at least, why
'require-non-root' is a show-stopper when I'm running the
make check as root initially.

bj


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