Chad MILLER wrote:
>
> On 7 Sep 2007, at 15:41, David Favor wrote:
>
>> I believe what's required is more than just running the
>> test suite as non-root.
>>
>> Doing the following is allowing the test suite to proceed:
>>
>> chown -R mysql:mysql /build/work/mysql-5.1.23-alpha
>>
>> In other words the entire build process beginning with configure
>> on must be run as non-root, which is different than just running
>> the test suite as non-root.
>
> In particular, whatever user you're running the tests as has to have at
> least read access to all the files. Unpacking the tarball as that user
> just happens to force that user to own everything, and thereby be able
> to read everything. Configure and building "rootness" shouldn't matter.
>
> I'm sorry for the confusion.
No worries.
And doing the above chown is the only way I can find to cleanly resolve all
the permission errors which arise when accessing data files and .libs/*.
You can see this easily by doing the build + test as root.
When I get all the details worked out I'll post a note about my exact commands.
Many thanks!
- David
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