I have verified this. I took "." and the other directory that rsync in it in out of my PATH on Solaris 7, and the chgrp, hardlinks, and unsafe-links tests failed. If I put the other directory or "." back in, they succeed.
Martin, please change the test initialization to put "." first in the PATH. - Dave On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:18:26PM -0700, Noah wrote: > > Hi, > > I noticed a weird problem with "make test" on rsync-2.5.5. > It seems that the testsuite only works if rsync is already installed > (presumably an older version...). I think the tests intend > to run the rsync that was just built and not the previously > existing rsync, but is not what appears to happen. > The test script output contains messages like this: > Running: "rsync -aHvv "/tmp/rsync-2.5.5/testtmp.hardlinks/from/" > "/tmp/rsync-2.5.5/testtmp.hardlinks/to/"" > ./testsuite/hardlinks.test: rsync: not found > > On a system without rsync I get these failed tests: > FAIL hardlinks > FAIL chgrp > > I'm running OpenBSD 3.1. Is there something I can do? > > Also, is it OK to build and install as root? > I remember reading something about not running > rsync as root, but I can't find a reference to > that anymore, so I'm not sure. If the tests run rsync, > then I guess if would be bad to build as root. > > Yours, > Noah > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
