skip pexpect using tests on freebsd

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Changes between 2.3.0 and 2.3.dev
 -----------------------------------
 
+- skip pexpect using tests (test_pdb.py mostly) on freebsd* systems
+  due to pexpect not supporting it properly (hanging)
 
 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
 -----------------------------------

_pytest/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #
-__version__ = '2.3.0'
+__version__ = '2.3.0.dev1'

_pytest/pytester.py

@@ -532,6 +532,8 @@ class TmpTestdir:
             pytest.skip("pypy-64 bit not supported")
         if sys.platform == "darwin":
             pytest.xfail("pexpect does not work reliably on darwin?!")
+        if sys.platform.startswith("freebsd"):
+            pytest.xfail("pexpect does not work reliably on freebsd")
         logfile = self.tmpdir.join("spawn.out")
         child = pexpect.spawn(cmd, logfile=logfile.open("w"))
         child.timeout = expect_timeout

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def main():
         name='pytest',
         description='py.test: simple powerful testing with Python',
         long_description = long_description,
-        version='2.3.0',
+        version='2.3.0.dev1',
         url='http://pytest.org',
         license='MIT license',
         platforms=['unix', 'linux', 'osx', 'cygwin', 'win32'],