Re: make test failed

[Paul Eggert]

Daniel Herzog <address@hidden> writes:

> well - I did a "echo "somestuffhere" > /dev/null" right after I saw the
> error message which worked perfectly fine - and i guess i would see a
> whole lot more errors if it wasnt present at all.

Not if you were running the test as root, and if /dev/null were
accessible to root and not to you.  What is the output of the
command "ls -l /dev/null"?

> What does the code you gave me do? / Which information do you need?

The code attempts to mimic the part of the test that is failing.
It invokes the 'id' command and redirect the output to /dev/null.
Please invoke these commands in something as near to the test environment
as you can.  If they succeed, but the test fails, we need to find
out what differs between the test environment and your shell.

Please use /bin/sh to test these commands (since I assume /bin/sh is
being used to run the tests).

groups=${FETISH_GROUPS-`(id -nG || /usr/xpg4/bin/id -nG) 2>/dev/null`}
echo "$groups"