Re: 'make check', those that require X, the others

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Frederic Peters schrieb:
> Again,
>
> My buildslave finished its run of modules <http://jhbuild.bxlug.be:8080/>
> and several are marked as failed because their 'make check' phase failed.
>
> There are roughly three categories there:
>
>  1. real check failures, to be investigated;
>  2. missing files in po/POTFILES.in, I'll check with i18n and report
>     them if necessary;
>  3. failures because checks require to be run in an X server.
>
> What to do about that last category?  Should it be reported against
> modules so they do not try to run them if DISPLAY= is not set?
> Something else?

We could also run Xvfb. In my pet project I check for Xvfb in configure and 
start Xvfb in the tests - it works quite well. I think gtk can start Xvfb from 
the makefile too.

Stefan

> Also, is this possible to identify modules failing 'make check' on the
> homepage?
>
>
>         Frederic
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