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Re: perl 5.10.0 installation issues on CentOS 5

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From:
Bram
Date:
June 2, 2008 15:18
Subject:
Re: perl 5.10.0 installation issues on CentOS 5
Message ID:
20080603001714.dvjb0pkry88gg40o@horde.wizbit.be
Citeren Jochen Luig <skirnir@gmx.net>:

> ?Someone suggested on IRC earlier today that the 'mkdir' and 'rmdir'
> tests failed due to my running 'make test' as root which makes perfect
> sense.

For some value of 'perfect'...

> But now I'm asking myself why I passed all the tests on Ubuntu Hardy as
> I did a 'sudo -s' before starting the whole installation process. Thus,
> 'make test' was run as root there as well.

Can you run:

as root:
perl -wle 'mkdir("/tmp/blurfl",0777); mkdir ("/tmp/blurfl",0777) or die $!;'

as a regular user:
perl -wle 'mkdir("/tmp/blurfl2",0777); mkdir ("/tmp/blurfl2",0777) or die $!;'

on CentOS and on Debian?


Kind regards,

Bram



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