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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: Various tests give illusory results |
Date: | Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:17:02 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 |
On 09/06/2012 11:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 63fa042..6941721 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Improvements + root-only tests now check for permissions of our dummy user, + $NON_ROOT_USERNAME, before trying to run binaries from the build directory. + Before, we would get hard-to-diagnose reports of failing root-only tests. + Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests + are run without following the instructions in README. +
Minor point is that this isn't really an improvement visible to users We've previously used this header for such info: ** Build-related cheers, Pádraig.
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