Changeset 777c890 for chapter06/bash.xml

Timestamp:

05/30/2020 07:00:00 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib-10.1

Children:

0e9d60e

Parents:

160e72c

Message:

MultiLib: Merge changes up to 11861

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multilib@11871 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/bash.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/bash.xml

@@ -74 +74 @@
     package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>
 
-    <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
+    <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody .</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
-    class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para>
+    class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash &lt;&lt; EOF
-PATH=$PATH HOME=/home make tests
-EOF</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The <command>su</command> command above is slightly different from
-    other places in the book. The
-    reason is that the <option>-c</option> option runs the command without
-    a controlling terminal, while the bash test suite needs one.</para>
+    <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
+    user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
+    up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results. Portions of the 
+    run-execscript, run-lastpipe, run-read, and run-test programs
+    are known to fail in the LFS chroot environment, but pass if the tests
+    are run in a full system.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package and move the main executable to