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Just thought I would update this (although only with another failure).<div><br></div><div>I started from scratch and this time installed tcl and expect as part of </div><div><b>IV. Building the Basic Tools </b>(which I noticed LFS was doing) but unfortunately</div><div>I still get the same issue from expect complaining that as a normal user</div><div>there are not enough PTYs :(</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Grail</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:55:41 -0400<br>> From: chris@beaker67.com<br>> To: clfs-support@lists.cross-lfs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Clfs-support] ***SPAM*** Binutils Chapter 10 part 14<br>> <br>> On 10/13/2009 05:27 AM, Chris Staub wrote:<br>> >> So as I am running the install as a user this would be my problem?<br>> >> How do I go about having more ptys available? (I followed the<br>> >> instructions<br>> >> in 8.3 - mount -f -vt devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts ${CLFS}/dev/pts<br>> >> although would note that /dev/pts has nothing in it)<br>> >><br>> >> Cheers<br>> >> Grail<br>> >><br>> > Unfortunately I also have no idea about a solution, but then I haven't<br>> > really tried that hard as I generally don't run testsuites much anyway.<br>> > I've googled for a fix, and the closest thing I can find is a Debian<br>> > patch -<br>> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/e/eglibc/eglibc_2.9-20ubuntu2/changelog<br>> > (the "unlockpt" one) - which according to further searching seems to be<br>> > just modifying [glibc source]/sysdeps/unix/bsd/unlockpt.c and changing<br>> > "sizeof (_PATH_TTY) + 2" to just "1024". I can't find anything else on<br>> > the details of exactly what problem it's supposed to fix so I really<br>> > have no idea whether it even has anything to do with root/non-root<br>> > permissions issues, but it's worth a try I guess, unless someone has a<br>> > better solution...<br>> <br>> Nope, that doesn't work...still looking for other ideas...<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Clfs-support mailing list<br>> Clfs-support@lists.cross-lfs.org<br>> http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org<br></div> <br /><hr />Let us find your next place for you! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/' target='_new'>Need a place to rent, buy or share?</a></body>
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