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

[Daniel Schepler]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:21 PM, James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

/dev/stdout is present in the chroot.  However, in my setup, stdout is
a pipe to a "tee" process, and the pipe is owned by root so the build
user can't access it through /dev/stdout.  I'd imagine much the same
must be true in the reproducible-builds environment.  (Of course, then
I have no clue how it's working at all on the buildd's.)
-- 
Daniel