On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:12, Sam Ruby wrote:
> donaldp wrote:
> > Now I just need to figure out how to get it to compile without the
>
> presence of X windows ;)
>
> On rubix (my Linux box), I installed Xvfb and added the following lines to
> my cron job, before and after the build respectively:
>
>    /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :8 &
>    export DISPLAY=:8
>
>    kill `ps -eo pid,comm | awk '/Xvfb/ { print $1 }'`

Okay - that would not happen to be the same box the official builds are done 
on ? ;)

> Originally, I specified a fixed string ("gump") which solved my
> problem, and clearly identified the source of the jar if somebody
> downloaded a nightly build. 

I have put in an ugly hack for the time being. Will contact the author and 
see if something nicer could be worked out ;)

> Ultimately I refined this to specify the date
> so that jars so there was a better correlation between the jar and which
> build was used to produce it.

"refined it" ? I would say changed it :) 

But then again I was working away when the day switched to the next and thus 
all dependency names changed - however I could not figure out why my code 
that worked 10 minutes ago didn't work anymore. Eventually I figured it had 
ticked over to the new day ;)

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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