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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Timothy Stone <ja...@gmail.com> on 2007/09/16 21:33:03 UTC

Re: make check failure in switch_tests [CLOSED]

On Sep 16, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Lieven Govaerts wrote:

> Timothy Stone wrote:
>> Noob warning.
>>
>> After some headaches, I finally got svn 1.4.5 built on my Mac  
>> (10.4.10).
>>
>> `make check` had one (1) failure (see below). My questions are:
>>
>> 1. Is this a major failure?
> No, it's most likely because you're running the tests as root. If  
> that's
> the case, try running it again as a non-root user.

Bingo. Thanks!

>> 2. How do I fix it, if necessary?
>> 3. What is the significance of the SKIP warnings?
> SKIP means that the test isn't run at all. Some tests are written to
> only work on Windows, with an http server etc, so the tests that don't
> match your setup are skipped. The authz_tests for example are all
> skipped because you're running the tests over ra_local, not over  
> ra_dav
> or ra_svn, which doesn't require (nor support) authentication.
>
> hth,
>
> Lieven

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