Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There is a test failure in this version. As far as I can tell, this is
>>> because it fails to locate or write to the users home directory.
>>> Setting $HOME to /tmp does not work since it looks it up directly
>>> through '<pwd.h>'. I'd like a second opinion before disabling this test.
>>>
>>
>> In src/compiler/test-suite.log I found that the test tried and failed to
>> create "/.cache". Is this the failure you're talking about?
>
> Yes. I'll see if I can make it consult $HOME, or just hardcode the
> location to /tmp; otherwise it's probably safe to disable it. The test
> succeeds when invoked interactively.

I ended up patching out the one test case that fails, in commit
0315b20a2c5d68d6b6d53ecd0f80964c5ca91d70.

@Leo, others: I don't anticipate more staging updates in a while, should
we try and get this merged?