From 618b2514852205b6a06b02cad9a796b1e8092f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:01:16 -0500
Subject: Mount the devpts file system.
The lack of a devpts file system was causing mysterious GNU Binutils
test suite failures, with these "spawn failed" errors in the test log:
Test Run By root on Sun Dec 8 20:36:45 2013
Native configuration is x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
=== binutils tests ===
Schedule of variations:
unix
Running target unix
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target.
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
Using /usr/src/binutils_2.23.2-1/tmp/src/binutils/testsuite/config/default.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file.
Running /usr/src/binutils_2.23.2-1/tmp/src/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/ar.exp ...
/usr/src/binutils_2.23.2-1/tmp/build-core-linux-eglibc/binutils/ar rc tmpdir/artest.a tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2
Executing on host: /usr/src/binutils_2.23.2-1/tmp/build-core-linux-eglibc/binutils/ar rc tmpdir/artest.a tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstu
vwxyz2 (timeout = 300)
spawn /usr/src/binutils_2.23.2-1/tmp/build-core-linux-eglibc/binutils/ar rc tmpdir/artest.a tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2M
spawn failed
[...]
=== binutils Summary ===
# of unexpected failures 6
# of unresolved testcases 48
# of untested testcases 7
# of unsupported tests 4
runtest completed at Sun Dec 8 20:36:45 2013
After spelunking through Binutils and DejaGnu code (exploring the great
remote_exec and local_exec procedures of DejaGnu), I tried the
following, which resulted in much more helpful information:
$ expect
expect1.1> spawn echo hello
spawn echo hello
The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
while executing
"spawn echo hello"
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(limited to 'patches/gmp')
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