Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)
Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
> Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:
>
>> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>>>
>>> Good golly, Miss Molly, that's it. It does indeed blow chunks if the
>>> input is /dev/null (whether within a chroot or just a normal native
>>> build).
>>
>> Heh. Glad that helped. Took a wild guess from your previous message
>> about hooks not getting stdin.
>>
>> Now, you just get the fun of figuring out why....
>
> Well, I've reported it upstream. They're pretty good about helping
> out, and understand the internal details far better than I. :)
Lilypond thinks that if input is not a terminal, we must be running
under a GUI. At that point, its behavior starts changing in all sorts
of subtle ways (part of the output now goes to a log file instead of
stdout, random chdir happens partway through, etc.). Sigh.
Thomas
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