devpts in mach buildroots

[Ville Skyttä]

perl-IPC-Run from Extras devel CVS fails its test suite when built with
mach.  It needs pseudo tty's and the mach chroot doesn't have devpts
mounted, /dev/ptmx alone is not enough.

The attached quick and dirty patch adds devpts mounting to mach
buildroots.  perl-IPC-Run builds fine here with it applied.

What do you think, would this be an useful/acceptable addition to mach?

[Warren Togami]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  perl-IPC-Run from Extras devel CVS fails its test suite when built
> with
>  mach.  It needs pseudo tty's and the mach chroot doesn't have devpts
>  mounted, /dev/ptmx alone is not enough.
>  
>  The attached quick and dirty patch adds devpts mounting to mach
>  buildroots.  perl-IPC-Run builds fine here with it applied.
>  
>  What do you think, would this be an useful/acceptable addition to mach?
>   
Just go ahead and commit.  Don't forget to bump the release or version 
or something too.

Warren

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 09:23 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>  Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  > perl-IPC-Run from Extras devel CVS fails its test suite when built with
>  > mach.  It needs pseudo tty's and the mach chroot doesn't have devpts
>  > mounted, /dev/ptmx alone is not enough.
>  > 
>  > The attached quick and dirty patch adds devpts mounting to mach
>  > buildroots.  perl-IPC-Run builds fine here with it applied.
>  > 
>  > What do you think, would this be an useful/acceptable addition to mach?
>  > 
>  
>  Just go ahead and commit.  
Done.

>  Don't forget to bump the release or version 
>  or something too. 
The buildsys-temp releases seem to be timestamp based, so apparently no
need to do this.