Re: Bug#544528: zsh-beta: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (hang in testsuite)

Re: Bug#544528: zsh-beta: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (hang in testsuite)

[Clint Adams]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:17:31PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> the build of zsh-beta currently hangs in testsuite.
> The problematic test is Test/B04read.ztst.
>
> In the head of the file is written:
>
> # Not tested:
> #  -c/-l/-n (options for compctl functions)
> #  -q/-s (needs a tty)
>
> But a few lines latter, the "-q" is used.

That does appear to be true.

> 0:read specified number of chars
>> foo
>
>  for char in y Y n N X $'\n'; do
>    read -q -u0 <<<$char
>    print $?
>  done
>
>
> The test hangs in "nohup dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" build,
> but passes in "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" interactive build.

Re: Bug#544528: zsh-beta: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (hang in testsuite)

[Peter Stephenson]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:17:31PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > the build of zsh-beta currently hangs in testsuite.
> > The problematic test is Test/B04read.ztst.
> >
> > In the head of the file is written:
> >
> > # Not tested:
> > #  -c/-l/-n (options for compctl functions)
> > #  -q/-s (needs a tty)
> >
> > But a few lines latter, the "-q" is used.

-q doesn't need a terminal since 27188, the documentation needs changing
too.

> > 0:read specified number of chars
> >> foo
> >
> >  for char in y Y n N X $'\n'; do
> >    read -q -u0 <<<$char
> >    print $?
> >  done
> >
> >
> > The test hangs in "nohup dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" build,
> > but passes in "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" interactive build.

Please find out where it's hanging, and if it does so with -k instead of
-q (the test will fail in that case unless rewritten).

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