Re: getting Gtk-perl

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Nori Heikkinen said:
> > don't wait for 1.0, use 0.94 (released about two hours ago).
>
> okay.
>
> i've been trying to compile and install, and it appears to have
> worked.  I'm curious as to why 20 out of 20 tests fail in `make test`
> (on both 0.92, which i tried half an hour ago, and 0.94):

i didn't check all of them, but the first five failed tests experienced their
first failures on the line with Gtk2->init.  the only ways Gtk2->init will
fail are gtk binary version mismatches and inablity to connect to an X server.

in fact, i just tried it from my home machine (i.e., over an ssh link with no
X forwarding) and i got the same results, so it looks like you can't get to an
X server.  without an X server, none of the tests will work, as this is an X
toolkit.

hrm.  looks like we need an option in all the *.t files to skip all the tests
when DISPLAY isn't defined.

until then, just make sure you have X running and your DISPLAY set.


> this doesn't appear to have affected installation, but are these going
> to bite me in the ass later, when I try to use them?

you should be fine, but again, you have to have an X connection to run any
programs.


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