Re: Coreutils needs make check-root for some tests

[Chris Staub]

Peter Ennis wrote:
LFS 6.2
6.14 Coreutils

Notices in log file about running tests as root.
We need to "Do `make check-root' as `root' to run these tests"

make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/coreutils-5.96/tests'
../src/printenv POSIXLY_CORRECT >/dev/null \
  && sed s/%%/POSIXLY_CORRECT/ ./.env-warn || :
test "${CDPATH+set}" = set \
  && sed s/%%/CDPATH/ ./.env-warn || :
***********************************************************
NOTICE: Some tests may be run only as root.
  Do `make check-root' as `root' to run these tests.
***********************************************************

...
make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/coreutils-5.96/tests/chown'
***************************
NOTICE:
./basic: This test is being skipped, since it works only
when run as root.

I don't understand what you mean. The book DOES say to run "make 
check-root".
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