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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-05-29 22:05:38 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-05-29 22:05:38 +0000
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Tweak additions and deletion of tester user.
Explain test filures in bash. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11868 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
<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.</para>
+ 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
<filename class='directory'>/bin</filename>:</para>