Re: Autotest: make test dir writable before removing

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:25:18PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> I applied Ralf's patch, [...]

... before running "make check", and that was mistake.  Sorry.

The following has to be added:

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If the test dir already exists,
        make its content writable before removing it.

Index: lib/autotest/general.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autotest/general.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.191
diff -u -r1.191 general.m4
--- lib/autotest/general.m4     3 Oct 2005 10:25:54 -0000       1.191
+++ lib/autotest/general.m4     3 Oct 2005 10:41:50 -0000
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
       # Create a fresh directory for the next test group, and enter.
       at_group_dir=$at_suite_dir/$at_group_normalized
       at_group_log=$at_group_dir/$as_me.log
-      chmod -R u+w $at_group_dir
+      test -d $at_group_dir && chmod -R u+w $at_group_dir
       rm -f -r $at_group_dir
       mkdir $at_group_dir ||
        AS_ERROR([cannot create $at_group_dir])