Re: Test suite fails in chroots

[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:28:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Ben,

Ben Elliston <[email protected]> skribis:

>> DejaGNU's test suite fails when run in a chroot.  We observe this in
>> NixOS' chroot builds (http://nixos.org/) and similar reports were
>> already made in the past:
>> 
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2003-06/msg00002.html
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/1036
>
> Can you please confirm that this is still a problem, 7 years on?  I
> tried `make check < /dev/null' as indicated in the first referenced
> URL above and it works fine.

It does!  In the meantime, I’ve switched to a different distro ;-), but
it uses the same foundations and indeed, the “< /dev/null” trick does
the job.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#dejagnu

Thanks for following up,
Ludo’.

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