Re: interactive problem in build?

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Neil Jerram" <address@hidden> writes:

> 2008/12/11 Neil Jerram <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Sorry, no.  I haven't seen or heard of a problem like this before.
>
> (And then immediately after sending - naturally - something occurs...)
>
> Unless it's the popen test.  I believe we still have half-a-fix
> pending somewhere for an occasional hang in that test.  And it's
> conceivable that that could involve tty output.

I had it in mind too, but I didn't dare to name it.  :-)

On NixOS, the build daemon ends up waiting until the "sleep 999"
terminate, which is annoying, so we have applied Neil's patch that uses
"read" instead of "sleep":

  
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/popen-zombie.patch

For a discussion, see:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/7078

Thanks,
Ludo'.