Re: chgrp

[Jim Meyering]

"Bartlomiej P. Lyson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden:/sources-lfs/coreutils-5.96# src/su dummy
> -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"

Thank you for testing coreutils and for reporting the failure.

It looks like you might have unpacked and built as root, and now want
to run the tests as a normal user.  Doing that simply won't work.
Do this instead: unpack and build as an unprivileged user, and then
run tests as that same unprivileged user.

If you want to run the "root-only" tests in a directory in
which you've built as a normal user, do this:

  sudo env NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make root-check

Also note that 5.96 is about 9 months old, and there have been many
stable releases since then.  Please test one of these instead:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2