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On Monday 08 August 2005 15:58, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> > Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>When logging is enabled, ebuild output is passed via tee. Running |
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> >>anything that checks for terminal type inside of pkg_config therefore |
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> >>doesn't work correctly. This patch disables logging during pkg_config |
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> >>altogether. |
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> > There was a thread about this recently, and I'm almost certain that my |
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> > input was lost in the noise. A cleaner way of accomplishing that is to |
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> > write the ebuild such that portions which need a terminal either attach |
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> > to a terminal (`make menuconfig </dev/tty >/dev/tty`) or simply check |
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> > for a terminal (`tty -s || die "I need a terminal."`). I almost never |
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> > use the `ebuild ... config` feature, but just on general principle I'd |
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> > rather the logging capability remain intact. |
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> Is this type of /dev/tty device functionality portable among all gentoo |
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> supported (non-Linux) operating systems? This is a concern that comes to |
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> my mind. |
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Good point. I often forget about 'those others'. ;) |
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By the way, you might want to drop by #gentoo-portage on irc.freenode.net |
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sometime as a lot of discussion tends to happen there... |
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Jason Stubbs |
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