Re: rcs-5.8 test failure

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:58:55 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Organization	UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

I think it's a bug in the test case.
Does the following patch to tests/common-i fix things for you?

--- common-i	2011-08-08 04:54:51.000000000 -0700
+++ common-i-fix	2011-10-17 10:57:53.770320620 -0700
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ log_rx=
 cmd=
 wdisp=
 
+dont_check_readonly=true
 case $(uname -s | tr A-Z a-z) in
-    cygwin*) dont_check_readonly=true ;;
-    *)       dont_check_readonly=false ;;
+    cygwin*) ;;
+    *)       test -w / || dont_check_readonly=false ;;
 esac
 
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