Re: [Monotone-devel] two patches to get `make check' to pass

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been lurking, updating, looking at diffs, and building
> `make check' occasionally.  I was surprised to see many test
> failures.  Today I investigated and found that it was due to
> the fact that `testsuite' is running the monotone binary in
> my path (/usr/bin/monotone == 0.22) rather than the one I'd
> just built.  I don't have `.' in my PATH, btw.

Strange; autotest seems to automatically fix that for most people; I
wonder what's different about your setup.

Applied, but setting AUTOTEST_PATH="." instead, as the autotest
documentation recommends.  See if that works for you...

> Once I set TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, that solved almost all of those problems.
> One failure remained: #98.  It's failing probably because I'm using a
> newer version of `mv' from the GNU coreutils.
> 
> When you run `mv DIR_NAME NONEXISTENT_DIR_NAME/',
> where the nonexistent target directory doesn't exist yet
> is specified with a trailing slash, POSIX says mv must treat
> that argument as if it were `NONEXISTENT_DIR_NAME/.'.
> Hence the failure.
> 
>   mv: target `subdir2/target_dir/the_dir/' is not a directory: No such file 
> or directory

Ah-hah!  There's a mystery solved -- we've had scattered reports of
failures here, always from people running SuSE, but no-one actually
had any explanation for what was going on... thanks!

Applied.

-- Nathaniel

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