Re: Failing tests in ruby since 1.8.2

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Caleb Tennis wrote:

> The following tests have been failing in Ruby for a long time, including
> through today's snapshot:
>
> 1) Failure:
> test_delete(TestDBM) [./dbm/test_dbm.rb:332]:
> <DBMError> exception expected but none was thrown.
>
>  2) Failure:
> test_delete(TestGDBM) [./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:441]:
> <GDBMError> exception expected but none was thrown.
>
>  3) Failure:
> test_s_open_error(TestGDBM) [./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:199]:
> <Errno::EACCES> exception expected but was
> Class: <Errno::EAGAIN>
> Message: <"Resource temporarily unavailable - tmptest_gdbm">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:200:in `open'
> ./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:200:in `test_s_open_error'
> ./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:199:in `test_s_open_error'
> ---------------
>
>  4) Failure:
> test_s_open_error(TestSDBM) [./sdbm/test_sdbm.rb:122]:
> <Errno::EACCES> exception expected but none was thrown.
>
>
> It seems as though, at least for #1,2,4, they fail because they're testing
> for a write to a read-only file, but if run as root the write succeeds.
> Obviously you could say "don't run as root", which is feasible but our
> automated build process runs as a priviledged user capable of writing to
> the tmp directory which is what is causing these to fail.
>
> Is there an easy fix for this?

are you compiling as root?  if so be aware that the behaviour of the linker on
many systems is silently changed when doing this.

regards.

-a
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