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  Wed May 07 15:59:05 2003 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Unattended Bundles hang on Term-ReadLine-Perl
I have a bundle that includes Term::ReadLine::Gnu, and that appears to depend on Term-ReadLine-Perl. The problem is that Term-ReadLine-Perl has a make test step that explicitly attaches to /dev/tty and waits for user-input, so while doing perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Bundle::MyMegaPerlUpdate"' < /dev/null works just fine for every other module I'm installing (taking the defaults in cases where it asks questions during CPAN's "make" step), I return hours later (or days, depending on what sort of environment this is run in) to a prompt waiting for me to verify that Term::ReadLine::Perl is working, and under cron, well there's no much hope there. I understand that it's hard to say that you've "tested" something when you have not had a chance to do what it's designed to do, but for those of us who are trying to install unrelated, but dependent modules, could this module perhaps just avoid any /dev/tty-based tests when STDIN is not a terminal (e.g. "exit 0 unless -t STDIN")? If that's unacceptable, perhaps you could provide an environment variable that I could set in my top-level Makefile that kicks off CPAN that would prevent the test from running? Thanks!
  Fri May 09 01:27:31 2003 ilya [...] Math.Berkeley.EDU - Correspondence added
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 22:27:24 -0700
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya [...] Math.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [cpan #2532] Unattended Bundles hang on Term-ReadLine-Perl
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> I have a bundle that includes Term::ReadLine::Gnu, and that appears
to depend on Term-ReadLine-Perl. [Hitting Enter time to time would make your mail more readable. Reformatted] No it does not. The problem is that Term-ReadLine-Perl has a make test step that explicitly attaches to /dev/tty and waits for user-input, so while doing Show quoted text
> I understand that it's hard to say that you've "tested" something when you have not had a chance to do what it's designed to do, but for those of us who are trying to install unrelated, but dependent modules, could this module perhaps just avoid any /dev/tty-based tests when STDIN is not a terminal (e.g. "exit 0 unless -t STDIN")?
Working with !-t STDIN is one of the design goals of Term::ReadLine. Show quoted text
> If that's unacceptable, perhaps you could provide an environment
variable that I could set in my top-level Makefile that kicks off CPAN that would prevent the test from running? Just install it first. Hope this helps, Ilya