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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-01-08 09:00:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-01-08 09:00:08 +0000 |
| commit | 8a7b0f32d3b494ea513091724d34c66026718c5f (patch) | |
| tree | f2d7c49cdfdb872237c45557501613ad013d3e6f | |
| parent | 71b7fcc1a90eccfd815782eea665a0fe7fa93995 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8a7b0f32d3b494ea513091724d34c66026718c5f.tar.xz | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 10 |
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ compilation mode is 32-bit and the software compiles fine using the default mode. To build this software in 64-bit mode you will need to fix the system /usr/include/inttypes.h header file. After correcting that file the software also compiles fine in 64-bit mode. -Here is one possible patch to correct the problem. +Here is one possible patch to correct the problem: --- /usr/include/inttypes.h.orig Thu May 30 01:00:00 1996 +++ /usr/include/inttypes.h Sun Mar 23 00:20:36 2003 @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ Here is one possible patch to correct the problem. -#ifndef __STDC_32_MODE__ +#ifndef __LP64__ + +********************** +Running tests as root: +---------------------- + If you run the tests as root, note that a few of them create files and/or run programs as a non-root user, `nobody' by default. If you want to use some other non-root username, specify it via @@ -89,13 +94,14 @@ I find that it is best to unpack and build as a non-privileged user, and then to run the following command as that user in order to run the privilege-requiring tests: - sudo env NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make check + sudo env NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check If you can run the tests as root, please do so and report any problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's arguably more important that these tools work well when run by root than when run by less privileged users. + *************** Reporting bugs: --------------- |