[Slackbuilds-users] Unstated requirement (apparently) to build octave

[James Diamond]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 19:52 (+0100), Matteo Bernardini wrote:

> Il giorno sab 21 mar 2020 alle ore 18:22 James Diamond via
> SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> ha scritto:

>> Hi,

>> I often ssh in to a much faster machine to run sboupgrade to build new
>> versions of various SB packages.  It turns out that when I try this
>> with octave, it fails repeatably.  But if I VNC in and run it from a
>> terminal open on that machine, it succeeds.

>> It seems that while building it wants to use/access/look at/investigate/...
>> the graphics, and that fails during an ssh -Y connection.  Possibly if I
>> reset DISPLAY it would be happy.  Or didn't use -Y.  Or something else...

>> In any case, should someone add a comment to the README about this, to
>> keep other people who might run into this from wasting too much of
>> their time?

>> Cheers.

>> Jim

> Hi Jim,

> I don't know what's happening there but I just built octave
> successfully on my headless slackware64-14.2 virtual machine.

Hi Matteo,

interesting.  I wish I had saved the error messages (I will regenerate
them if anyone is particularly interested, but they occur after a lot
of compiling, when the tests are being done).

Perhaps in your case the test suite recognizes that there is no
graphics card and doesn't try various tests, or, at least, doesn't get
fooled by the fact that the local graphics card and the $DISPLAY
graphics card don't match.

Cheers

                                Jim