Re: [Expectperl-discuss] spawned subprocess seems to hang - solution

[Christian G. <cg...@hq...>]

> I'm working on building a relocatable self-contained "perl world" which
> contains all the modules I need for my project, without relying on
> whatever happens to be installed on the target machine.
>
> On Solaris 8, I am running into a problem, the symptom of which may be
> familiar to the regular members of this list. I am failing right at test
> 2, where "expect" is waiting for the output produced. No output seems to
> be forthcoming, even though running the spawned process with "truss"
> seems to indicate that output is being produced. I suspect some problem
> with the pty related to the way I may be building perl.
>
> Has anyone observed this?

It turns out that I compiled perl with the wrong value for "byteorder".
How that came in there is a long story, but I do think it is a bug that a
specific setting for "byteorder" in Policy.sh is ignored when
"crosscompile" is defined... but it isn't an expectperl bug :)

Sorry for the disturbance.
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cg