"Charles Butterfield" <charles.butterfield_at_nextcentury.com> writes:
> 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.
Before we add an issue, we should get some more details on why it
failed, what error messages you saw, what tests.log said, what RA
layer you were running the test suit over (i.e., 'make check' versus
'make svncheck' versus 'make davcheck'), etc.
In other words, if this is a bug report, let's make it into a real bug
report, with transcript and everything. See
http://subversion.tigris.org/bugs.html
Thanks,
-Karl
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Received on 2008-02-18 01:47:48 CET