On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:56:56PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Unfortunately, this was unlogged and scrolled out of my > > > term's buffer - it then died with an EPERM trying to create > > > test-suite.log.tmp so I've now started it again, after chown me > > > ../automake-1.12.3. > > > > So, in effect that is chown -R some-normal-user ../automake-1.12.x > > > > If you are interested, compare what we do for the coreutils tests. > > [ if you aren't, I understand ] > > > > ?en > > -- > > das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce > > > > > > > Thanks for the really detailed replies Ken -- it's much appreciated. > > I'm building this when I have the spare time; I'll see if I can run the > tests tonight and get back to you. > > Richard
Thanks, but perhaps not necessary - it seems to be a problem at my end (see Bruce's response, and my reply to that). In particular, the "run as a regular user" seems NOT to be the key. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
