Re: building gspell

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

Hello Catonano,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:04:06AM +0100, Catonano wrote:
> in trying to build Gspell for Guix ( https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ ) I
> run into this error
>
> starting phase `check'
> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be
> created.
>
> it seems that the builder user is required to be root
>
> While the Guix buuild environment explicitly provisions for thhe buuild
> user NOT to be root
>
> Can I build Gspell without my user to be root ?

I've never seen that error, and I don't build gspell as root.

As far as I understand the error occurs during `make check`? Some unit
tests in the testsuite/ directory depend on GTK+, it's maybe why it
needs a GDK backend (here X11).

Anyway, gspell is similar to GtkSourceView, maybe look at how
GtkSourceView is built in Guix?

Best regards,
Sébastien