building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread R P Herrold
Cruising my bugs upstream (I file them, and advance them in front of the Fedorian borg's autocloser to amuse myself, and not with much expectation of resolution) I just got the semi-annual set of proposed auto-closes of neglected bugs, and am re-verifying and advancing them today One is

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_2: rpm/ devtool.conf

2010-11-04 Thread devzero2000
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: BTW, there's a modest fix in rpm-5.3 HEAD to get rid of the pesky uuid_t typedef in unistd.h on Mac Os X. Wasn't hard, just annoying. Dunno whether I pushed the fix (I've forgotten) to rpm-5_2. Perhaps this ? git show

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_2: rpm/ devtool.conf

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:28 AM, devzero2000 wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: BTW, there's a modest fix in rpm-5.3 HEAD to get rid of the pesky uuid_t typedef in unistd.h on Mac Os X. Wasn't hard, just annoying. Dunno whether I pushed the fix (I've

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:13 AM, R P Herrold wrote: Cruising my bugs upstream (I file them, and advance them in front of the Fedorian borg's autocloser to amuse myself, and not with much expectation of resolution) I just got the semi-annual set of proposed auto-closes of neglected bugs,

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 04 November 2010, at 10:13:09 (-0400), R P Herrold wrote: What are the team's thoughts to suggest here? Fix the package that erroneously assumes that lack of $DISPLAY implies lack of Tk for build. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ m...@kainx.org

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Thursday, 04 November 2010, at 10:13:09 (-0400), R P Herrold wrote: What are the team's thoughts to suggest here? Fix the package that erroneously assumes that lack of $DISPLAY implies lack of Tk for build. That is often (but

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Michael Jennings wrote: On Thursday, 04 November 2010, at 10:13:09 (-0400), Fix the package that erroneously assumes that lack of $DISPLAY implies lack of Tk for build. I did not give enough context -- I did a run of several hundred R ad-on packagings, and several need