Chapter 6 - Clarify remaining PTY issues.

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 <sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title>
 
+<para>Now is an appropriate time to verify that your pseudo terminals (PTYs) are
+working properly inside the chroot environment. We will again quickly check that
+everything is set up correctly by performing a simple test:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>If you receive the message:</para>
+
+<blockquote><screen>The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to create more.</screen></blockquote>
+
+<para>Your chroot environment is not set up for proper PTY operation. In this
+case there is no point in running the test suites for Binutils and GCC until you
+are able to resolve the issue. Please refer back to the "Mounting the proc and
+devpts file systems" and "Creating devices (Makedev)" sections and perform the
+recommended steps to fix the problem.</para>
+
 <note><para>The test suite for Binutils in this section is considered
-<emphasis>critical</emphasis>. Do not skip it under any circumstances.</para>
-</note>
+<emphasis>critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
+circumstances.</para> </note>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).