On 09/06/2012 11:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63fa042..6941721 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*-
outline -*-
** Improvements
+ root-only tests now check for permissions of our dummy user,
+ $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, before trying to run binaries from the build directory.
+ Before, we would get hard-to-diagnose reports of failing root-only tests.
+ Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests
+ are run without following the instructions in README.
+
Minor point is that this isn't really an improvement visible to users
We've previously used this header for such info: ** Build-related
cheers,
Pádraig.
