[augeas-devel] Failing tests while trying to compile Augeas 1.0 in Debian Wheezy

[Daniel Miranda]

I just realized I was trying to build as root, which means the file would
never be unreadable, so the test would always fail. I'll try to building
again as a regular user with fakeroot, it should work then.

Documenting this somewhere would surely help people building from source
(if it is documented already, please forgive me for my mistake).

Regards,
Daniel


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Daniel Miranda <danielkza2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get Augeas 1.0 running on a Debian Wheezy (stable) system.
> Unfortunately the official release of 1.0 is only available in the testing
> distribution, and requires me to upgrade libc to testing as well, which I
> do not want to do.
>
> So I set to compiling it myself. I downloaded the Debian testing sources
> of augeas-1.0.0 (which are mostly clean, just a single patch related to
> case-sensitivity of the build root), and went to build it.
>
> Unfortunately I'm getting a failed test:
>
> > FAIL: test-load (exit: 1)
> > =========================
> >
> > ..............F..
> >
> > There was 1 failure:
> > 1) testPermsErrorReported:
> > test-load.c:542: expected <0> but was <1>
>
> > !!!FAILURES!!!
> > Runs: 17 Passes: 16 Fails: 1
>
> I checked the test code and it if I understood correctly it tries to parse
> an unreadable hosts file. So I went to check if it was actually unreadable,
> and it its:
>
> > $ ls -l build/test-load/testPermsErrorReported/etc/
> > total 4
> > --w------- 1 root root 309 Nov  2  2012 hosts
>
> I don't really know what information about my system could be relevant,
> but here are some:
>
> > libc6:amd64 2.13-38
> > libreadline-dev 6.2+dfsg-0.1
> > augeas 1.0.0-1.1 from debian testing (jessie)
>
> I don't really know if the failed test is really meaningful, or what I
> need to do to debug/fix it. Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel Miranda
>
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