Tox hangs on waiting for pyproject_api backend if --installpkg is used #3512
Description
Issue
Tox hangs when using certain PEP 517 backends such as pdm-backend together with the --installpkg option.
It is the option that, for instance, devpi-client opts to use for the devpi test command.
Interesting that it only happens if tox is run with at least two environments. Only one environment does not trigger the issue.
Environment
CPython 3.12 on Ubuntu/Debian Linux.
The issue is reproducible with the official python:3.12 Docker image (see below).
Output of running tox
The output is indistinguishable from the normal, expected output unless the --exit-and-dump-after option is used.
Minimal example
Consider the following self-contained example, let's assume it is saved under /tmp/test.sh:
#!/bin/bash set -e set -x python -m venv /tmp/venv source /tmp/venv/bin/activate pip install -qU build pip tox mkdir -p /tmp/skeleton/skeleton cat << EOF > /tmp/skeleton/pyproject.toml [build-system] requires = ["pdm-backend"] build-backend = "pdm.backend" [project] name = "skeleton" description = "Just a skeleton for reproducing a tox issue." version = "0.1.1337" dependencies = [ "requests", ] [tool.pdm.build] includes = [ "skeleton/", ] source-includes = [ "tests/", "tox.ini", ] EOF cat << EOF > /tmp/skeleton/tox.ini [tox] envlist = dummy1,dummy2 [testenv:dummy1] commands = python -c print(1) [testenv:dummy2] commands = python -c print(42) EOF pushd /tmp/skeleton python -m build --sdist popd tox --installpkg /tmp/skeleton/dist/skeleton-0.1.1337.tar.gz -c /tmp/skeleton/tox.iniNow, run this /tmp/test.sh inside the python:3.12 Docker image:
docker run --rm -it -v /tmp/test.sh:/tmp/test.sh python:3.12 /bin/bash /tmp/test.sh