Bug#894565: vim: FTBFS: Test failures if build user cannot open /dev/stdout

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Tue Apr 3 02:21:02 UTC 2018


On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 07:49:05AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> From https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/vim.html
> (and I'm also seeing pretty much the same failure under pbuilder):
> 
> ...
> 
> Executing Test_z()
> Executing Test_z_negative_lnum()
> Executing Test_z_overflow()
> Executed 345 tests
> 
> 
> From test_writefile.vim:
> Found errors in Test_writefile_sync_dev_stdout():
> Caught exception in Test_writefile_sync_dev_stdout(): Vim(call):E482:
> Can't create file /dev/stdout @ function

Why is /dev/stdout missing?  It's possible one of the attached patches
will work around that issue, but I'm more curious why that's happening
in the first place.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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