Re: pkg/41971: graphics/dia-python cannot find pygtk module (py25-gtk2 is installed)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41971; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41971: graphics/dia-python cannot find pygtk module
 (py25-gtk2 is installed)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 07:51:36 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:55:02AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
  >   >    |  It seems to me that having it clear $DISPLAY is
  >   >    |  the correct default behavior.
  >   >  
  >   >  That's what I'm doing in the version of pkg_comp I'm using now, and
  >   >  I haven't seen any further problems - but I don't know that I have 
built
  >   >  anything that truly requires an X connection to build (if such a thing
  >   >  exists).
  >  
  >  If we find any, maybe we ought to have pkgsrc infrastructure to
  >  provide a dummy X server for such packages, so they build
  >  consistently.
 
 At this point I think we can say with confidence (after paying a lot
 more attention to bulk build results over the last couple years) that
 there is exactly one such package in pkgsrc: misc/hanzim. It does some
 index generation at install time that (for no particularly good reason)
 runs behind a tcl/tk event loop.
 
 It is not worth setting up infrastructure to support that; it would be
 much less trouble to fix the package.
 
 Should the change to clear DISPLAY in pkg_comp be merged into the
 pkgsrc version of pkg_comp? If so, let's do it; otherwise, I think we
 can close this PR.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost