t.bogodir on powerpc

[David Relson]

At 06:11 PM 4/6/03, Clint Adams wrote:

> > That's a possibility, of course.  However t.bogodir runs fine under Debian
> > on 8 different architectures.  Is there any reason why the environments of
> > powerpc, arm, and mips would be different?  Also, on mips t.bogodir passed
> > for 0.11.1.4 and 0.11.1.5.  It's only on 0.11.1.6 that it has
> > failed.  Something has changed - for the worse.
>
>The 0.11.1.5 mips build was done on resume.rfc822.org.  The 0.11.1.6 was
>done on "sgi"; whatever that is.  Some architectures only have one
>autobuilder, some have several.  powerpc only has one right now, which
>would explain the consistent failures, whereas arm has many, and mips
>has at least 2, so it could be a luck-of-the-draw-type thing.
>
>The myriad autobuilders are configured differently for various reasons.

That could certainly explain the randomness factor.  How's about I extend 
t.bogodir with an explicit test with the following lines:

echo HOME=$HOME
ls -ld $HOME

That would provide a bit more info.