I noticed that one of the "root-only" tests failed when libcap-devel is not installed. This skips the test in that case.
>From 7eb15e1020590ebc1f39e5679feea8f1106d241c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:54:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: skip a root-only test when configured without libcap * tests/ls/capability: Test for HAVE_CAP definition in config.h. --- tests/ls/capability | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/ls/capability b/tests/ls/capability index f064348..6336ca1 100755 --- a/tests/ls/capability +++ b/tests/ls/capability @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ fi . $srcdir/test-lib.sh require_root_ +grep '^#define HAVE_CAP 1$' $CONFIG_HEADER > /dev/null \ + || skip_test_ "configured without libcap support" + (setcap --help) 2>&1 |grep 'usage: setcap' > /dev/null \ || skip_test_ "setcap utility not found" fail=0 -- 1.6.0.2.307.gc427 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils