Re: using ps and /proc in buildd chroots possible?
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:06:16AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > I can't figure out why my builds fail on some architectures and success
> > > on some others. As the problematic command is a simple "ps -p $$" in
> > > a ./configure script I wonder if it can be that some buildds don't mount
> > > /proc in their chroots.
> >
> > Not all do afaik, but why would you want to run that command anyway?
> > I can't think of any reason to examine the list of running processes
> > during a build..
>
> ./configure tries a "ps p $$ | grep $$" to figure out if ps works like
> BSD or SystemV... I've just compiled a patched version that skips this
> step as the used target system for my packages will be Linux most likely :)
>
> BTW: Is there a reason not to mount proc in buildd?
Do you build-dep on procps? Since you know what the system runs on a
SysV like structure, maybe you could hardcode it in the configure (or
maybe get the author to write an override in the configure script).
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