Re: t5539 broken under Mac OS X

On 2015-01-14 19.37, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

t5539 doesn't seem to work as expected under Mac OX X 10.6
(10.9 is OK)

I am not root.
Are there any ideas how we can improve the situation, or how to debug ?

As to "how to debug", the first step is to grep for that message and
notice that it comes from here:

t/lib-httpd.sh:

    if ! test_have_prereq SANITY; then
            test_skip_or_die $GIT_TEST_HTTPD \
                    "Cannot run httpd tests as root"
    fi

and then grep for SANITY to find:

t/test-lib.sh:

    # When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that
    # things are writable when they shouldn't be.
    test -w / || test_set_prereq SANITY

It appears that the check in lib-httpd.sh thinks you lack SANITY; is
the root directory of your system somehow writable by you?

Yes, that was a good hint, thanks.
The "problem" is that I am Admin on one machine, but not on the other,
and / was writable for the admin group for some reasons, and only on this machine.



But, why does e.g. t0004 behave more gracefully (and skips) and t5539 just dies ?

./t0004-unwritable.sh 
ok 1 - setup
ok 2 # skip write-tree should notice unwritable repository (missing SANITY of POSIXPERM,SANITY)


(And after changing the group of / t5539 passes, and so does t0004)