[Expectperl-discuss] 'make test' as non-root user?

[Warren P. <wpo...@ve...>]

Hello,

I have a problem running 'make test' (Expect-1.11) as an ordinary user -
works fine as root

$ make test
        PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
/usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/irix-n32
-mips3 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502 test.pl
1..7
ok 1
Expect: Could not assign a pty at blib/lib/Expect.pm line 87.
Expect: Could not assign a pty at blib/lib/Expect.pm line 87.
*** Error code 22 (bu21)

The line it's complaining about (Expect.pm line 87):

      die "$class: Could not assign a pty" unless $self->IO::Pty::ttyname();


Is this a permissions problem (something I can fix)?  Or ???

I plan to have my Expect script called from a CGI script so I don't want to
have to run it as root - I would prefer to 'su' from within my expect
script - I have root access to this box and can set up whatever (almost) I
need.

Thanks,

Warren

-------------[ perl -V ]----------------
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=irix, osvers=6.5, archname=IP27-irix
    uname='irix64 nexus 6.4 02121744 ip27 '
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=define
  Compiler:
    cc='cc -n32 -mips3', optimize='-O3', gccversion=




cppflags='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -OPT:Olimit=0 -I/u/rford/buildperl/sfio/i
nclude -I/usr/local/include -I/u/local/n32msql2/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    ccflags ='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -woff
1009,1110,1184 -OPT:Olimit=0 -I/u/rford/buildperl/sfio/include -I/usr/local/
include  -I/u/local/n32msql2/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags
=' -L/usr/local/lib32 -L/usr/local/lib -L/u/rford/buildperl/sfio/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib32 /lib32 /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc -lsfio
    libc=/usr/lib32/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef,
cdlflags='  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/irix-n32-mips3/CORE'
    cccdlflags=' ',
lddlflags='-n32 -shared -L/usr/local/lib32 -L/usr/local/lib -L/u/rford/build
perl/sfio/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Built under irix
  Compiled at Dec 10 1998 11:41:39
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/irix-n32-mips3
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/irix-n32-mips3
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .