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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 00:34, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> "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.

which i personally have no problem with, but i don't set the rules with
gtk.

> (And even then, you'd
> need to add some sort of gtk_init_but_dont_really() function.)

for some reason i had thought gtk_init_check() performed this - but
looking at the code i am obviously an idiot.

how warm would you be on a patch to get this working?  at worst i can
just patch our build to work around this in some evil way, but i'd
rather have it fixed for real / more nicely.

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

at least i now know an upper bound on the bad hack i should use to fix
this.

jacob
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