rxvt-devel fails on -CURRENT

Christopher Hall freebsd at generalresources.com
Wed May 7 18:16:38 PDT 2003


rxvt-devel-2.7.8_1 fails with the following error:

ptytty.c:50:48: sys/stropts.h: No such file or directory

After some searching I fount the same error in:

http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-latest/rxvt-devel-2.7.8_1.log
http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-latest/zh-rxvt-devel-2.7.8_1.log

I also found a uncommited update to rxvt-devel-2.7.9 which I tried
and give the same error.
  http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46244


This seems to be the problem: (from the above logs)
  pty/tty type:               STREAMS
It is building for Linux style /dev/ptmx


This is the code in configure:

 else if test -c /dev/ptc -a -d /dev/pts; then
    rxvt_cv_ptys=PTC
 else if test -c /dev/ptmx -a -c /dev/pts/0; then
    rxvt_cv_ptys=STREAMS
 else if test x$ac_cv_func_grantpt = xyes && test x$ac_cv_func_unlockpt = xyes;
 then
    rxvt_cv_ptys=STREAMS
 else
    rxvt_cv_ptys=BSD


Configure is detecting grantpt and unlockpt from stdlib.h

I noticed there is also a posix_openpt,  presumably rxvt
should be modified to detect and use this.

As a quick fix, I made it compile by patching configure
to force BSD ptys:

--- configure.x Wed May  7 17:17:21 2003
+++ configure   Wed May  7 17:25:09 2003
@@ -8904,11 +8904,8 @@
     rxvt_cv_ptys=PTC
  else if test -c /dev/ptmx -a -c /dev/pts/0; then
     rxvt_cv_ptys=STREAMS
- else if test x$ac_cv_func_grantpt = xyes && test x$ac_cv_func_unlockpt = xyes; then
-    rxvt_cv_ptys=STREAMS
  else
     rxvt_cv_ptys=BSD
-fi
 fi
 fi
 fi


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