[Expectperl-discuss] Solaris spawn hangs

[Jeffery C. <jc...@ya...>]

I read on this list a posting from last month
regarding the spawn command in expect-perl.  I observe
the same behavior:

1.  Spawn generates a new process for the command - I
see it in the process table and I can see that it is
running and collecting output.

2.  Expect perl module will wait indefinitely and not
return control from the Expect->spawn().

The poster said:

"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 :)"

+http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1896340&forum_id=6382

If this poster is still on the list, could you provide
some additional details about your environment?  I am
on Solaris 2.6, perl 5.004_04.  There was no Policy.sh
in this release and the Configure script autodetects
the byte order to be 4321.  I have tried it with 4321
and 1234 and still the spawned process hangs.

I appreciate any suggestions.
Jeff

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