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| author | Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> | 2013-05-01 13:07:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> | 2013-05-01 17:18:45 -0400 |
| commit | 5454da3bcaa383f5b47984283f11f010d3d2b73e (patch) | |
| tree | 0d19ccb36e58a49688f648a22a8110c3e254ffdc /doc | |
| parent | 11bd102c0e3793204111f712e5bd4bf54f2d9573 (diff) | |
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Don't use portmapper in RPC tests
On many Linux systems, due to what is arguably a bug in rpcbind, the
portmapper doesn't allow service registration from non-root processes.
This causes the RPC tests to be frequently skipped. Modify the tests
so that they don't need the portmapper, by grabbing the port number
from the server process and passing it to the client.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build/doing_build.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/build/doing_build.rst b/doc/build/doing_build.rst index bc438c849e..3c686cc716 100644 --- a/doc/build/doing_build.rst +++ b/doc/build/doing_build.rst @@ -149,9 +149,6 @@ However, there are several prerequisites that must be satisfied first: **-**\ **-disable-rpath**, which renders the build tree less suitable for installation, but allows testing without interference from previously installed libraries. -* In order to test the RPC layer, the local system has to be running - the portmap daemon and it has to be listening to the regular network - interface (not just localhost). There are additional regression tests available, which are not run by ``make check``. These tests require manual setup and teardown of |