Re: [Monotone-devel] testsuite failed

[Zack Weinberg]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:19:29AM +0100, Wojciech Mi?kowski wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I figured it out. I'm using Gentoo Linux, and I'm cooperating with 
>> Gentoo developers to make an ebuild (a building script) for that 
>> distribution. It seems that when this self test is done with normal user 
>> privileges everything is OK, but when switched to root test 62 fails. So 
>> test 62 can be done successfully as root which is unexpected by test suite.
>
> Ahhh.  That would make sense.
>
> Umm.  Building and testing things as root is a bug ;-).

Just to reemphasize that, there have been many occasions where I've
seriously considered making GCC bomb out if run as root.

zw