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

[Roland G. <RGi...@cp...>]

Austin Schutz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hmm, in the 'perl Makefile.PL' step I'm trying to figure out what 
constants are defined by compiling test progs for each constant. Austin, 
as you seem to have a solaris machine on your hands, could you look into 
that and see why it gets defined?

Thanks!

Roland