Re: More on /dev/pty and Fedora Core 3

On 12/27/04 18:56:33, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> On Dec 26, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> 
>> On 12/25/04 16:18:19, Robert Love wrote:
>>> I've spent some time trying to get GPS to run debug sessions under  
>>> Fedora Core 3.  The problem seems to be related to the lack of  
>>> pseudo terminals (pty).  There are none in this linux distribution  
>>> and as far as I can tell, I have a valid installation.
>> 
>> BTW, I noticed today that if you're building from the sources  
>> there's a
>> configuration option "--without-ptys", described as "don't use ptys  
>> to communicate with the debuggers".
> 
> Did you build using that option?  I tried it and see no difference.   
> The debugger still fails wanting a pty.

Same here.  Also, as soon as I start GPS I get this message, without  
trying to use the debugger:

	Could not access pty_name --/dev/ttyz0--
	return -1 from allocate_tty

The message is in the terminal window that I start GPS from.

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas