On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:08:05PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > KD7NM brought up to me today that the configure test for "gv" > complains about X11 if there's no X11 running on Cygwin at the time. > I believe Tom mentioned this or a similar thing to me before as > well. > > What would be a good direction to go in this case? Should we test > again for just the presence of the file if it fails the first test? > I'd hate to toss out the print customization options just because > someone configured without X11 running.
Well, the main problem is that we need to actually *run* gv to see what version it is in order to determine what sort of options to pass to it (they changed them dramatically a couple years ago, and old options are no longer recognized). And "gv --version" tries to connect to the X server even though it has no intention of putting up any windows. Unless we're going to drop support for the old style GV options (potentially shutting some folks out who haven't upgraded in years), we'll need to run gv --version in order to figure the version out. You could, of course, always do something like "test for existence of gv, then run it to test version, and if it doesn't run assume it's the new version" or something like that. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
