On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:23:12PM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
[...]
> Because `config' detected that it was possible to build a 64 bit version
> of OpenSSL, it will stop and wait for user input from /dev/tty. When
> the `report' make target is built, it runs
>
> perl util/selftest.pl
>
> which tries to stuff the output from `config -t` into a perl variable.
> This hangs without any prompting at all, because config is waiting for
> a response on /dev/tty.
>
> This situation affects 64-bit capable Solaris and 64-bit capable IRIX.
>
> My patch offers one fix -- don't be interactive if `TEST' is set. That's
> probably not the best solution. I think it would be better to just not
> be interactive at all. Have config spit out a big, bold message about
> the option to go 64 bit, then wait 10-30 seconds. If they haven't hit
> ctrl-c by that point, continue marching. That's a nicer solution for
> other reasons (building via RPM or some other packaging mechanism, which
> I also happen to be doing here).
Actually the current development version waits only for 5 seconds or
so and then automatically continues. This was changed in July.
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