From: Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: Zsh-users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: problem building zsh in background
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:06:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m365h173ep.wl%petersen@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zneewgvd.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org>
>>>>> "PT" == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
PT> Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> writes:
>> but with the second patch (msg00896.html) when there
>> is no tty I see:
>>
>> : checking if kill(pid, 0) returns ESRCH
>> correctly... yes checking if POSIX sigsuspend()
>> works... yes checking if tcsetpgrp() actually
>> works... notty configure: error: no controlling tty
PT> The first patch fails to detect if configure runs
PT> without a controlling tty, does not run the test and
PT> assumes that tcsetpgrp() works correctly.
PT> The second patch aborts the configure run in that
PT> case.
Ok. :)
PT> The first patch was a work in progress, the second
PT> patch is supposed to be an improvement :-)
PT> Why do you want to run configure with nohup?
Building with the second patch fails in our buildsystem. ;-)
PT> I guess I could run the test in a separate, created
PT> pty, but that is going to be messy to do portably in
PT> configure.
I don't know which platform this test benefits, but
presumably with modern glibc it works ok. Perhaps the test
could be skipped except on affected platforms?
Jens
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 8:17 Jens Petersen
2003-11-25 20:39 ` Philippe Troin
2003-11-26 8:57 ` Jens Petersen
2003-11-26 19:19 ` Philippe Troin
2003-11-27 1:32 ` Jens Petersen
2003-11-27 10:30 ` Jens Petersen
2003-11-30 5:43 ` Philippe Troin
2003-11-30 18:56 ` Danek Duvall
2003-12-01 2:36 ` Geoff Wing
2003-12-01 6:08 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-01 6:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-12-01 8:32 ` Jens Petersen
2003-12-03 1:19 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-09 4:50 ` Jens Petersen
2003-12-09 5:26 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-01 1:06 ` Jens Petersen [this message]
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