Re: t5539 broken under Mac OS X

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2015, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmw5l9pje.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <54B68D99.2040906@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

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> t5539 doesn't seem to work as expected under Mac OX X 10.6
> (10.9 is OK)
>
> I am not root.
> Are there any ideas how we can improve the situation, or how to debug ?

As to "how to debug", the first step is to grep for that message and notice that it comes from here:

t/lib-httpd.sh:

    if ! test_have_prereq SANITY; then
            test_skip_or_die $GIT_TEST_HTTPD \
                    "Cannot run httpd tests as root"
    fi

and then grep for SANITY to find:

t/test-lib.sh:

    # When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that
    # things are writable when they shouldn't be.
    test -w / || test_set_prereq SANITY

It appears that the check in lib-httpd.sh thinks you lack SANITY; is the root directory of your system somehow writable by you?

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>
> t>
> t> ./t5539-fetch-http-shallow.sh ; echo $?
>
> 1..0 # SKIP Cannot run httpd tests as root
> 0
> t>
> t> GIT_TEST_HTTPD=t ./t5539-fetch-http-shallow.sh ; echo $?
> error: Cannot run httpd tests as root
> 1
> t>