Bug 133351 – no way to turn on /dev/pts support in app-editors/jove ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Florian Berger 2006-05-14 23:50:48 UTC]

This is my first bug report ever, I'll try to get it right.

Overview Description:
app-editors/jove is a small emacs clone. By default it's built-in
shell support relies on the legacy /dev/ptyXX system. The new
2.6 Unix98 /dev/pts style can be activated via a switch in the
Makefile, but I can not find a way to set that switch upon
standard emerging.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) When building a 2.6 kernel, leave Device Drivers / 
   Character Devices / "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" empty
   (LEGACY_PTYS=n)
2) boot the kernel and "emerge jove"
3) run jove and enter shell mode (META-X shell).

Actual Results:
It complains "Out of ptys!". The shell can not be used.

Expected Results:
It should give a shell prompt.

Applies to:
jove-4.16.0.65.4.ebuild
jove-4.16.0.56.1.ebuild

Dirty fix:
The whole point is to set a variable in the Makefile (which
by the way contains a detailed description). Thus I was able to
fix it by adding the line

-e "s:^SYSDEFS =.*:SYSDEFS=\"-DSYSVR4 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500\":" \

within the sed command in src_unpack() in the ebuild file.
However, this is not very clean. It might be better to have
something like a USE flag "pts" to activate the Unix98 pts
style.

[Comment 1 Florian Berger 2006-05-14 23:54:32 UTC]

Here's my emerge --info:

Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.17-rc3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-rc3 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.3
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.14.90.0.7-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.3-r4, 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acl alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt curl dri eds emboss encode esd exif expat flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection ruby sasl sdl session slang spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib video_cards_mach64 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2006-06-02 07:59:58 UTC]

fixed in the newest version bump, please test.

Thanks!

[Comment 3 Florian Berger 2006-06-02 13:17:01 UTC]

OK here's what I did to check:

$ emerge --sync
$ echo app-editors/jove >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
$ USE="unix98 -X" emerge jove
$ jove
META-X shell

The shell buffer with a prompt opens. It works, and it's a clean solution. Thank you so much!

Cheers, Florian Berger, Leipzig, Germany