The script needs two files to open: $(builddir)/test_file_access.txt, and $(srcdir)/file_access_whitelist.txt. However, the script is opening the files from the $CWD which won't work for a VPATH build. Make the script accept paths to the files through @ARGV and tune the Makefile.am to pass them. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/Makefile.am | 4 +++- tests/check-file-access.pl | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am index cbe8e86224..4c2856bf97 100644 --- a/tests/Makefile.am +++ b/tests/Makefile.am @@ -454,7 +454,9 @@ EXTRA_DIST += $(test_scripts) if WITH_LINUX check-access: file-access-clean VIR_TEST_FILE_ACCESS=1 $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check - $(PERL) check-file-access.pl | sort -u + $(PERL) $(abs_srcdir)/check-file-access.pl \ + $(abs_builddir)/test_file_access.txt \ + $(abs_srcdir)/file_access_whitelist.txt | sort -u file-access-clean: diff --git a/tests/check-file-access.pl b/tests/check-file-access.pl index ea0b7a18a2..2926126b14 100755 --- a/tests/check-file-access.pl +++ b/tests/check-file-access.pl @@ -24,8 +24,12 @@ use strict; use warnings; -my $access_file = "test_file_access.txt"; -my $whitelist_file = "file_access_whitelist.txt"; +sub usage { + die "$0 access_file file_access_whitelist\n"; +} + +my $access_file = shift or usage(); +my $whitelist_file = shift or usage(); my @known_actions = ("open", "fopen", "access", "stat", "lstat", "connect"); -- 2.23.0