[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Fix "make check" as non-root.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:10:15AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Ben Pfaff (blp at nicira.com) wrote:
> > Without this change, these tests try to write to /var/run, which fails
> > unless "make check" is run as root.
> 
> Yay!  This was breaking for me on Friday too.
> 
> I'm still hitting this from make distcheck (haven't dug into it yet):
> 
> mv ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.tmp ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1
> printf '\043 Generated automatically -- do not modify!    -*- buffer-read-only: t -*-\n' > ../python/ovs/version.py.tmp
> /bin/sh: ../python/ovs/version.py.tmp: Permission denied
> make[3]: *** [../python/ovs/version.py] Error 1

Oh, that sort of thing.  I'll send out a fix.