From d78ad5caccb4018d4eb833b43d17a417d4e7dc28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:43:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * tests/install/basic-1: Skip the latter part of this test if
 the just-built dd binary is not readable.  Otherwise, this test would fail
 when binaries were created as root.  Reported by Bauke Jan Douma in
 <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8433>.

---
 ChangeLog             |  7 +++++++
 tests/install/basic-1 | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5458cc6de1..1ebe1cdd4a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-10-05  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* tests/install/basic-1: Skip the latter part of this test if the
+	just-built dd binary is not readable.  Otherwise, this test would fail
+	when binaries were created as root.  Reported by Bauke Jan Douma in
+	<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8433>.
+
 2006-10-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	* src/system.h (ST_BLKSIZE): Ceiling at SIZE_MAX / 8 + 1, not at 4
diff --git a/tests/install/basic-1 b/tests/install/basic-1
index 9c7d106ad8..55f0b511c8 100755
--- a/tests/install/basic-1
+++ b/tests/install/basic-1
@@ -58,7 +58,20 @@ test -f $dir/$file || fail=1
 # Make sure strip works.
 dd=dd$EXEEXT
 dd2=dd2$EXEEXT
-cp $pwd/../../src/$dd . || fail=1
+
+just_built_dd=$pwd/../../src/$dd
+
+test -r $just_built_dd || \
+  {
+    cat 1>&2 <<EOF
+$0: WARNING!!!
+Your just-built dd binary, $just_built_dd
+is not readable, so skipping the remaining tests in this file.
+EOF
+    exit 77
+  }
+
+cp $just_built_dd . || fail=1
 cp $dd $dd2 || fail=1
 
 strip $dd2 || \
-- 
2.47.3