I have verified this. I took "." and the other directory that rsync
in
it in out of my PATH on Solaris 7, and the chgrp, hardlinks, and unsafe-links
tests failed. If I put the other directory or "." back in, they
succeed.
Martin, please change the test initialization to put "." first in the
PATH.
- Dave
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:18:26PM -0700, Noah wrote:>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed a weird problem with "make test" on rsync-2.5.5.
> It seems that the testsuite only works if rsync is already installed
> (presumably an older version...). I think the tests intend
> to run the rsync that was just built and not the previously
> existing rsync, but is not what appears to happen.
> The test script output contains messages like this:
> Running: "rsync -aHvv
"/tmp/rsync-2.5.5/testtmp.hardlinks/from/"
> "/tmp/rsync-2.5.5/testtmp.hardlinks/to/""
> ./testsuite/hardlinks.test: rsync: not found
>
> On a system without rsync I get these failed tests:
> FAIL hardlinks
> FAIL chgrp
>
> I'm running OpenBSD 3.1. Is there something I can do?
>
> Also, is it OK to build and install as root?
> I remember reading something about not running
> rsync as root, but I can't find a reference to
> that anymore, so I'm not sure. If the tests run rsync,
> then I guess if would be bad to build as root.
>
> Yours,
> Noah
>
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