On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:44:52PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Building as root is certainly not okay, but prior to packaging UL into a
> distro or applying it on a few servers, I expect every admin and
> distro maintainer to run 'make check'.
I have added tests/run.sh to 'make check' for non-root users. It should
be enough for smart people who do not rebuild their packages as root.
If you want to run all utils-linux tests then you have to
cd tests && ./run.sh
*manually* as root user.
> With a proper test suite, we give him/her a basic test to check whether
> the software is running as expected in his/her environment. Otherwise,
> he doesn't have much chance other than waiting for productive problems.
I have no problem to enable all the tests by default for all users,
but we need to *review and make robust* the scripts where is
ts_skip_nonroot.
Karel
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