On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:40:59PM -0400, Josh Kelley wrote: > > I'm trying turn an Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Developer Tools) managed build > project > > into a Debian package and am having a lot of trouble. Since it's a > managed > > build project, I can't simply run make. Eclipse can start a build from > the > > command line (as described at > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344797/962610#962610), but it > apparently > > still requires an X server. I tried using xvfb-run to accommodate, and I > > simply can't get it to work. xvfb-run works if I invoke it directly, but > > whenever it's invoked from debuild, Eclipse locks up. I've tried a few > > different approaches to fixing it: I tried using -e for xvfb-run to see > > errors, but nothing looked relevant; I tried running xvfb-run from > fakeroot, > > to see if fakeroot was the source of the problems, but it worked; I > checked > > my environment variables, to see if debuild was stripping something that > > Eclipse + xvfb-run needed, but nothing looked relevant. > > > > Any suggestions? Any known issues or gotchas in running xvfb-run from > > debuild? What's different about debuild spawning xvfb-run versus > spawning > > it myself? > > Do you also build-depend on xauth? >
Yes. (And xvfb, xbase-clients, and xfonts-base, as instructed by the xvfb-run script.) It doesn't seem to make any difference. -- Josh Kelley
