Re: rcs-5.9.4: make check: tests 510 511 603 604 605 900 999 failed on AIX

[Michael Felt]

regarding username - I had to login (su was not enough) to get it to change the username in the RCS file.

Same 7 errors, but in t511.d/RCS there is this:
4.20
date    2015.01.23.13.53.24;    author michael; state Exp;
branches;
next    ;

So, it does not seem to be 'author' related.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Michael Felt <address@hidden> wrote:

re: T900: ./t900[29]: LOGNAME: This variable is read only.

This is set by default in AIX in /etc/profile

address@hidden:[/data/prj/gnu/rcs/rcs-5.9.4/tests]grep -n LOGNAME /etc/profile   
37:readonly LOGNAME
44:MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
60:export LOGNAME MAIL MAILMSG TERM

In AIX it should be an error if LOGNAME is not readonly

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Michael Felt <address@hidden> wrote:

no, have not tried that. I package as root, but I shall try as michael and send the results

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:

() Michael Felt <address@hidden>
() Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:08:52 +0100

   The screen output was unchanged - as far as I could
   tell. Here are the directories.

Thanks (also for t900-gcc.d).

I gather from:

 $ grep -nH -e author  */*
 t511.d/RCS:9:date      2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;
 t603.d/RCS:10:date     2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;
 t604.d/RCS:10:date     2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;
 t604.d/RCS:16:date     2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;
 t604.d/RCS:21:date     2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;
 t605.d/RCS:9:date      2015.01.23.12.01.42;    author root;    state Exp;

that you are running "make check" (and possibly "make") as root.
Have you tried running these commands as a non-root user?

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