PSPP-BUG: [bug #24553] "make check" reports tests/command/insert.sh failure with /tmp symlinked

[Ben Pfaff]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24553>

                 Summary: "make check" reports tests/command/insert.sh
failure with /tmp symlinked
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: blp
            Submitted on: Mon Oct 13 18:01:26 2008
                Category: None
                Severity: 5 - Average
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

Richard Brittain reports the following:

> I get 1 failing test in the set of 158.  The actual message is:
> 1c1
> < /private/tmp/pspp-tst-8859/foo.sps:10: error: DISPLAY: AKSDJ is not a
variable name.
> ---
> > /tmp/pspp-tst-8859/foo.sps:10: error: DISPLAY: AKSDJ is not a variable
name.
> 3c3
> < /private/tmp/pspp-tst-8859/foo.sps:10: error: Stopping syntax file
> processing here to avoid a cascade of dependent command failures.
> ---
> > /tmp/pspp-tst-8859/foo.sps:10: error: Stopping syntax file
> > processing 
> here to avoid a cascade of dependent command failures.
> examine output 1
> FAILED
> FAIL: tests/command/insert.sh

In a followup, he notes:

> On OSX, /tmp symlinks to /private/tmp - I think it is just to make it
> easier to stop the finder from browsing down that tree too easily.  I
> presume that the other tests also write files in /tmp, so that in
> itself isn't causing the problem.

We should make sure that a symlinked /tmp works properly with "make check".





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