I will see what I can do.
Please test the attached patch, which reads output from latex immediately after they are available. Cheers, Bo
Index: lib/configure.py =================================================================== --- lib/configure.py (revision 14498) +++ lib/configure.py (working copy) @@ -553,9 +553,14 @@ cl.close() # # we have chklayouts.tex, then process it - for line in cmdOutput(LATEX + ' wrap_chkconfig.ltx').splitlines(): + fout = os.popen(LATEX + ' wrap_chkconfig.ltx') + while True: + line = fout.readline() + if not line: + break; if re.match('^\+', line): - print line + print line, + fout.close() # # currently, values in chhkconfig are only used to set # \font_encoding