2.4.2 make tests fails on debian squeeze and wheezy

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 01/08/2013 05:13 PM, Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
> On 08/01/2013, at 17.04, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
>   wrote:
>> You are running the tests as root, and the tests that validates that 
>> Mercurial works as expected even with insufficient permissions will 
>> thus fail to fail. I guess we could make the test suite handle that 
>> somehow, but running the test as root is such a bad idea that nobody 
>> cares. 
> But I needs to run it as root to install it.

That would only be needed for the 'install' step, and it is not a good 
idea to install files in /usr anyway. It might be better to set PREFIX 
or use 'make install-home'.

I prefer to use 'make local' and symlink 'hg' to somewhere in $PATH.

(And the test suite is mainly intended for developers. There is rarely a 
good reason to run it when installing a released version on a 'normal' 
platform.)

/Mads