Re: [PATCH] make make dist work without making first

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org> writes:

> On 2 Oct 2001, jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> > right now i just ran into the fact that the doc generation code needs an
> > X connection - looking forward to fixing this (i know this kind of thing
> > thrills msw).
> 
> Yup, I was packaging an RPM, and have to resort to firing up a virtual
> X server when building gtk-doc stuff and kill the virtual X afterwards.
> Is this necessary?

Unless you want to have a rule that class_init functions can
never access any X resources, yes, it is. (And even then, you'd
need to add some sort of gtk_init_but_dont_really() function.)

We run Xvfb on developer.gnome.org where we do the nightly doc
builds.

Regards,
                                        Owen