From 8521b5c73f8f6ea361d40aa932ec3122faa43dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:54:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] DejaGNU: Update comments, document chroot impurity. svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13088 --- pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix index 869783a3923a..7ac79ecb12a1 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/dejagnu/default.nix @@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { buildInputs = [ expect makeWrapper ]; - # FIXME: Enable when the /dev/pts problem is fixed. + # FIXME: Enable when the "spawn id" problem is fixed. doCheck = false; - # FIXME: The chroot /dev/pts is currently empty, which causes Expect - # to fail: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org//lfs/faq.html#no-ptys . + # Note: The test-suite *requires* /dev/pts among the + # `build-chroot-dirs' of the build daemon when building in a chroot. + + # FIXME: The test-suite currently fails with this problem: + # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-dejagnu/2003-06/msg00002.html + # http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/1036 checkPhase = '' # Provide `runtest' with a log name, otherwise it tries to run # `whoami', which fails when in a chroot.