running tests from make causes spurious repo changes

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/09/2017 20:11, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Erik,
>
> It could be a feature of the build (i.e. test makefiles) to verify 
> that no source-controlled files were modified in the course of a test 
> run.
Something fishy in this thread as these tests have historically not 
changed the permissions of these libraries. So I'm curious how they were 
run, I wonder in case they were changed by a make file instead.

-Alan