Re: M4 1.4.9b testsuite failure

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Andreas Schwab on 5/30/2007 3:41 AM:
>> There are two testsuite failures in m4 1.4.9b:
>
> Thanks for the report.  This was on ia64, correct?
>
>> /bin/sh: line 8: ./test-closein.sh: Permission denied
>> FAIL: test-closein.sh
>
> Is savannah running a new enough CVS server (according to
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?4446, this would be 1.12.14+) that
> understands the new 'cvs admin --execute' command?  Otherwise, can someone
> (Jim?) log in and make this change?  test-closein.sh is the only broken
> script in gnulib/tests at the moment.

Hi Eric,

I made that ,v file executable on the server quite a while ago:

  -r-xr-xr-x 1 69750 Apr 27 13:14 .../gnulib/gnulib/tests/test-closein.sh,v*

Removing the local copy and updating should fix whatever working
directory is having trouble.