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Hi Girvin,
thank you for reporting this issue!
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Girvin Herr (gherrl2 AT fastmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I am building geda-gaf 1.10.2 on my Slackware64 15.0 system for the
> first time. It is my policy to build a package twice - once in a user
> mode corral to make sure the program builds without going out and trying
> to change root-privileged files on my disk and then if it builds fine
> there, I go on to build in root for installation.
Building packages doesn't require root privileges, so it shouldn't be done
as root. I'd recommend to either configure gEDA/gaf to use a user-local
prefix (e.g., ~/.local/) or just run the "make install" command as root.
> This geda-gaf version built fine in user mode with "make check", but
> when I build in root, I am getting a fatal test error:
> Â Â Â "unit-tests/t0402-config.scm"
> Just the one error that I can tell. It appears to pass all the other tests.
gEDA/gaf isn't intended to be run as root, so it isn't surprising that
configuration doesn't behave as expected in this situation, causing the
test to fail. As long as this is the only symptom, I don't feel like it
is worth investing the time to look into this, though.
Roland
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