Bug#599251: FTBFS: waits for user input at "latex path [/usr/bin/latex]"

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:11:24 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:

> > Ok, this is indeed not directly the cause. It's more how the ttpromt
> > in Makefile.PL works, in sbuild/chroot environment these will work
> > without waiting for confirmation and if we build int interactively it
> > waits for confirmation.
> Thanks! Is this ttprompt common in perl packages?

No, that's a hand-crafted function in the Makefile.PL of this
package.

ExtUtils::MakeMake has prompt() which honours PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
(which should be set in package builds via debhelper, IIRC).
Cf. http://perldoc.perl.org/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html#Other-Handy-Functions

I think in this case we can either
- patch Makefile.PL to set $ACCEPT to 1
- or patch Makefile.PL to use prompt()
- and/or set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT or patch Makefile.PL to honour
  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT

(I can't try now but I'm sure Salvatore will be quicker than me :))

Cheers,
gregor
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