Hi, I'd like to install Expect.pm and give it a try on a slackware 7.0 with
perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux. I started cpan to install
Bundle::Expect, because this solves dependencies to IO:STty and IO::Tty
but cpan couldn 't finish because it stopped having found an error.

So I went to .cpan/build/ and found

IO-Stty-.02
IO-Tty-0.04
Expect-1.11

IO - stuff comes without 'make test', so I installed them and went to Expect
using the 4-times-hop, but it stops at 'make test' with this error-message:

...

1..7
ok 1
Expect: Could not assign a pty at blib/lib/Expect.pm line 87.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 22

and line 86/87 are:

$name_of_tty = $self->IO::Pty::ttyname();
die "$class: Could not assign a pty" unless $self->IO::Pty::ttyname();

I took a look at the IO:STty and IO::Tty and it is there, where the error comes from,
because the IO::Tty 'try' script doesn't work:
Using /root/.cpan/build/IO-Tty-0.04/blib
Use of uninitialized value in sysopen at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/IO/File.pm line 159.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /root/.cpan/build/IO-Tty-0.04/blib/lib/IO/Pty.pm line 41.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /root/.cpan/build/IO-Tty-0.04/blib/lib/IO/Pty.pm line 41.
Cannot open as :No such file or directory at ./try line 12

This all happens as root, so what is the missing link?


there are no silly questions
killerhippy

In reply to Expect can't assign a pseudo-tty by khippy

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