Re: Candidate bug in build process -- cannot pass tests building/testing as root

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Charles Butterfield wrote:

> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:53:23 -0500
> From: Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield_at_nextcentury.com>
> To: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Candidate bug in build process -- cannot pass tests building/testing
> as root
>
>
> When building 1.4.6 as root (under CentOS 5.1), one of the tests fails,
> and several tests are skipped.
>
> The failed test is:
> FAIL: switch_tests.py 17: refresh the WC file system read-only
> attribute
>
> The skipped tests are:
> SKIP: utf8_tests.py 1: conversion of paths and logs to/from utf8
> SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 14: verify that unreadable content is not synced
> SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 15: verify that copies from unreadable dirs work
> SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 16: verify copies with mods from unreadable dirs
> SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 17: verify copies with mods from unreadable dirs
> +copy
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 1: authz issue #2486 - open root
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 2: authz issue #2486 - open directory
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 3: broken authz files cause errors
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 4: test authz for read operations
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 5: test authz for write operations
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 6: test authz for checkout
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 7: test authz for log and tracing path changes
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 8: test authz for checkout and update
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 9: test authz for export with unreadable subfolder
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 10: test the authz validation rules
> SKIP: authz_tests.py 11: test authz for locking
>
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> -------------------
>
> more /etc/redhat-release
> uname -a
> wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.bz2
> bunzip2 subversion-1.4.6.tar.bz2
> tar -xvf subversion-1.4.6.tar
> cd subversion-1.4.6
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> make check check-swig-pl check-swig-py CLEANUP=yes
>
> Related data:
> -------------
>
> 1) OS = CentOS 5.1
> 2) uname -a
> Linux ls2.hq.nextcentury.com 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5PAE #1 SMP
> Tue Feb 12 13:33:01 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 3) Build options (see above commands and attached files)
> - typescript
> - config.log
> - tests.log
>
> Regards
> -- Charlie
>
>

Try building the RPM from the packages/rpm/rhel-5 directory as non-root
and see if that works for you. I built it fine no problems.

Also, what version of NEON did you use? It requires NEON 0.27.2 or
greater, I believe.

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