On 8/20/2012 12:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Eleanore Boyd wrote: >> 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 ] >>>> 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. >> 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. > No, it's our installation of timezones. See my post on lfs-dev. I now > have no errors in the perl checks. > > -- Bruce > > Ah. At least the issue was straightforward.
I myself would never have guessed at it, since I skip all of the test suites anyway (yes, shame on me). Elly -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
