make check fails on chroot environment (Chapter 6) CVS Version 20030516

[stef@…]

If you choose to MAKEDEV -generic-nopty, when (for use with devpts filesystem later) then all make check will fail, as expect can't grab another pseudo tty to work with.

[jeremy@…]

I know this one exists, because I've ran into it myself. We need to do something about this prior to LFS 5.0 release.

[Matthew Burgess]

I thought this error was caused by /dev/pts not being mounted? We could do a cop out and do a mount --bind -t devpts /dev/pts /mnt/lfs/dev/pts from outside chroot I think (assuming my memory of the problem was correct).

[jeremy@…]

We're instead going to mount a real devpts filesystem to /dev/pts, and discuss the use of a mount --bind as an alternative when the host does not support devpts (Knoppix, the current bootcds, etc)

[Matthew Burgess]

Probably a moot point but Knoppix (listed above) *does* support devpts (albeit in a sometimes unreliable fashion). This doesn't detract from the necessity to handle those hosts that don't of course.