On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Hello, > > I've been lurking, updating, looking at diffs, and building > `make check' occasionally. I was surprised to see many test > failures. Today I investigated and found that it was due to > the fact that `testsuite' is running the monotone binary in > my path (/usr/bin/monotone == 0.22) rather than the one I'd > just built. I don't have `.' in my PATH, btw.
Strange; autotest seems to automatically fix that for most people; I wonder what's different about your setup. Applied, but setting AUTOTEST_PATH="." instead, as the autotest documentation recommends. See if that works for you... > Once I set TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, that solved almost all of those problems. > One failure remained: #98. It's failing probably because I'm using a > newer version of `mv' from the GNU coreutils. > > When you run `mv DIR_NAME NONEXISTENT_DIR_NAME/', > where the nonexistent target directory doesn't exist yet > is specified with a trailing slash, POSIX says mv must treat > that argument as if it were `NONEXISTENT_DIR_NAME/.'. > Hence the failure. > > mv: target `subdir2/target_dir/the_dir/' is not a directory: No such file > or directory Ah-hah! There's a mystery solved -- we've had scattered reports of failures here, always from people running SuSE, but no-one actually had any explanation for what was going on... thanks! Applied. -- Nathaniel -- Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
