On Monday 08 August 2005 15:58, Zac Medico wrote: > Drake Wyrm wrote: > > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>When logging is enabled, ebuild output is passed via tee. Running > >>anything that checks for terminal type inside of pkg_config therefore > >>doesn't work correctly. This patch disables logging during pkg_config > >>altogether. > > > > There was a thread about this recently, and I'm almost certain that my > > input was lost in the noise. A cleaner way of accomplishing that is to > > write the ebuild such that portions which need a terminal either attach > > to a terminal (`make menuconfig </dev/tty >/dev/tty`) or simply check > > for a terminal (`tty -s || die "I need a terminal."`). I almost never > > use the `ebuild ... config` feature, but just on general principle I'd > > rather the logging capability remain intact. > > Is this type of /dev/tty device functionality portable among all gentoo > supported (non-Linux) operating systems? This is a concern that comes to > my mind.
Good point. I often forget about 'those others'. ;) By the way, you might want to drop by #gentoo-portage on irc.freenode.net sometime as a lot of discussion tends to happen there... -- Jason Stubbs
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