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

[Chris Wright]

* 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