Re: PSPP-BUG: [GNU PSPP 1.0.1] testsuite: 36 failed

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 06:02:25PM +0000, Ross, Daniel B. wrote:
     I dont that is the problem.  For some reason the test suite created 
directories with absolutely no permissions:
     
     ls -l
     total 8
     d--------- 2 root root 2048 Sep 18 13:55 directory
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   84 Sep 18 13:55 file.sps
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  334 Sep 18 13:55 run
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  621 Sep 18 13:55 testsuite.log
     
     
     Any ideas why?
     

I think like Frederick is suggesting, this is because you are building as root.
This lays you open to all sorts of security problems and you should not do it.
Build as a normal user.


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