Re: 3.8.0-rc1 make check failures on Fedora rawhide

[Rik]

On 12/09/2013 03:39 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 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.
Octave is already falling back to gnuplot so that behavior is okay.  The
problem is that the %!test is trying to switch the graphics toolkit to FLTK
and doesn't check if an error has occurred while doing so.

--Rik