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

As suggested on the Issue Tracker page, I'm sending this to "users" for
review.

While rebuilding the subversion code (to experiment with
SVN_DELTA_WINDOW_SIZE), I noticed that a few of the tests ("make check")
fail if running as root. I don't know if the problem is building as
root, or running the tests as root. My solution was to build as
non-root, but then that is annoying because I have to run in another
window and do the root only things (make install, and creating a few of
the necessary output directories).

I spent quite a while puzzling over this before eventually noticing that
others had run into this issue. (Thank you maillists and Google!).

Suggestions

* If the build is likely to fail while running as root, it would
be very helpful to stop immediately with an error message to that
effect. Much time would be saved for all of the souls that try the easy
way of building.
* And naturally, if fixing things so you can build as root is not
hard, that would be a good thing too.

Is there any objection to adding this as an open issue? I searched the
Issue Tracker for "root" and found nothing related.

Regards

-- Charlie

 
Received on 2008-02-18 01:22:13 CET