[augeas-devel] Failing tests while trying to compile Augeas 1.0 in Debian Wheezy

[Dominic Cleal]

On 29/10/13 03:26, Daniel Miranda wrote:
> I just realized I was trying to build as root, which means the file
> would never be unreadable, so the test would always fail. I'll try to
> building again as a regular user with fakeroot, it should work then.
> 
> Documenting this somewhere would surely help people building from source
> (if it is documented already, please forgive me for my mistake).

I fixed this the other day in master by skipping the test when root, so
it will be in the next release.

commit b0fa354ecada84f7a4fdf586c08ae99ca2dd9a65
Author: Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 2 18:29:49 2013 +0100

    * tests/test-load.c (testPermsErrorReported): skip permissions test
when root

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Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering