Re: gnumeric 0.8 build fails if gnumeric 0.6 was previously installed

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 09:56:29PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer was heard to say:
> Hi,
> 
> the build process of gnumeric 0.8 calls src/gnumeric to generate some
> documentation. This immediately segfaults if a previous installation
> (0.6 in my case) left some plugins in $(prefix)/lib/gnumeric/plugins.
> 
> Simple workaround is of course to remove those old plugins, but I
> think that this case should be handled.
> 
> 	Robbe

  Actually, there's a worse problem here.  If gnumeric is compiled without
an X display, the build process unconditionally dies at that point with the
error "..GDK Error: cannot open display...".  I think that having compiles
depend on the presence of a GUI is not such a good thing.. :-)  (although I
don't know how to handle this, maybe just strcmp() or strstr() argv for
--dump-func-defs before calling gtk_init()? )

  Daniel