zsh: add variant that skips tcsetpgrp test (#4923)

zsh's configure script fails if there's it tries to test for terminal
functionality if there's not a terminal (e.g. in a Jenkins build).

The configure script has a switch that asserts that tcsetpgrp works
and thereby avoids running that test.

This commit adds a variant that invokes that switch, defaulting to
True.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zsh/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zsh/package.py
index 7a298d16b5..7225418363 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zsh/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zsh/package.py
@@ -37,5 +37,21 @@ class Zsh(AutotoolsPackage):
     version('5.3.1', checksum='d583fbca0c2410bf9542ce8a651c26ca')
     version('5.1.1', checksum='8ba28a9ef82e40c3a271602f18343b2f')
 
+    # Testing for terminal related things causes failures in e.g. Jenkins.
+    # See e.g. https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2003/msg00845.html,
+    # although the name of the option has evolved since then.
+    variant('skip-tcsetpgrp-test', default=True,
+            description="Skip configure's tcsetpgrp test")
+
     depends_on("pcre")
     depends_on("ncurses")
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        if '+skip-tcsetpgrp-test' in self.spec:
+            # assert that we have a functional tcsetpgrp
+            args = ['--with-tcsetpgrp']
+        else:
+            # let configure run it's test and see what's what
+            args = []
+
+        return args