Re: DJGPP & destdir.test failure

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> >>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  Richard> The install-data-hook could check for the existence of
>  Richard> the file and fail if it does exist.  This works, but
>  Richard> defeats the point of the test.
> 
> Yeah.  With such a change we would fail to notice the day we break
> distcheck in a way it no longer detect $(DESTDIR) omissions.
> 
> I'd rather conclude that this feature isn't supported on DJGPP
> (meaning distcheck will detect less bugs) and skip this test
> when read-only directories aren't available.  Does the following
> patch achieve this?  (Don't forget to rebuild `tests/defs' if
> you run the test case manually.)
[snip]

Yes, that works fine. Thanks!

Bye, Rich =]

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