Re: [Expectperl-discuss] re: building Expect.pm on solaris 9

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:43:42PM -0400, Zhisong Jin wrote:
> I'm trying to build a Expect.pm on solaris 9
> 
> 1. download expect-1.15 and IO-tty-1.02 source from sourceforge
> 2. compile and install IO-tty , all OK, \
> 2. compile expect-1.15,  failed at make test 
> $ perl Makefile.pl 
> $ make 
> $ make test 
> 
> "make test failed" , complain about 
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in ioctl at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64/IO/Pty.pm line 119.
> warning: TIOCSCTTY failed, slave might not be set as controlling
> terminal: Invalid argument at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64/IO/Pty.pm line 120.
> TIMEOUT
> 
> looking into the source on Pty.pm , the relevent portion is:  
> # Acquire a controlling terminal if this doesn't happen automatically
>   if (defined TIOCSCTTY) {
>     if (not defined ioctl( ${*$self}{'io_pty_slave'}, TIOCSCTTY, 0 )) {
>       warn "warning: TIOCSCTTY failed, slave might not be set as
> controlling
> terminal: $!" if $^W;
>     }

	Solaris doesn't set TIOCSCTTY here (can't find it anywhere under
/usr/include), that seems a little strange to me, not sure how you are getting
it defined.

>   } elsif (defined TCSETCTTY) {

	Also doesn't define this.


	I'm looking at 5.8 (vs. 9/5.9), but I would be _very_ surprised if they
changed basic terminal handling code between OS revs.

	Austin