Re: 3.8.0-rc1 make check failures on Fedora rawhide

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:23 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
 > On 12/09/2013 09:53 AM, Rik wrote:
> > On 12/08/2013 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> >> Most of these are coming from the lack of DISPLAY. Shouldn't they
> >> be skipped instead?

> > The test suite finds that you have FLTK and proceeds to try and
> > switch the graphic toolkit over to FLTK which then fails because
> > no DISPLAY is set.

> I'll just mention that this will be a pain for packagers. Without
> jumping through a lot of hoops, there is no X environment on the
> Fedora builders.

More generally than for packaging, Octave should fall back to gnuplot
if there is no X server. Should this patch go on the stable branch? I
can prepare it.

- Jordi G. H.