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From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] portage, openpty and interix
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:17:27
Message-Id: 4AE1660F.10707@gentoo.org
1 Hey :)
2
3 i just had some good time (since yesterday), trying to find out why
4 portage (14555) behaves quite strange. what i was seeing was this:
5
6 i start emerge -av1 expat on winnt (so interix portage):
7
8 1) it starts, verifies things, etc.
9 2) it eautoreconfs
10 3) it starts configure.
11 4) somewhere at "checking whether the C compiler works ..." it seems to stop
12 5) after some seconds, portage fails with "make failed" (!).
13
14 looking at the config.log for that package, configure finished
15 successfully (!).
16
17 after digging through the diffs to the last working portage version
18 (14487), i found out that adding "Interix" to the platforms where
19 portage should _not_ disable openpty, things return back to working.
20
21 it seems that the code using os.pipe() seems either broken or the
22 interix implementation of that python code is broken... whichever it is
23 - it's bad ... :(
24
25 Could you (grobian), please add "Interix" to the existing white list for
26 openpty platforms?
27
28 Cheers, Markus

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Re: [gentoo-alt] portage, openpty and interix Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>