Re: [Straw-devel] module_check in setup.py

[Terje Rosten]

* Juri Pakaste
| 
| This is caused by import gtk causing a RuntimeError when there's no
| X display.

What about this patch? If the $DISPLAY variable is not set, define it
and then try to import the modules.


 - Terje


--- setup.py~   2004-01-20 08:50:21.000000000 +0100
+++ setup.py    2004-01-20 08:53:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #
 # 
 
+import os
 import sys
 import glob
 import os.path
@@ -21,6 +22,12 @@
 def modules_check():
     '''Check if necessary modules is installed.
     The function is executed by distutils (by the install command).'''
+
+
+    # Some modules fails if the DISPLAY variable is not set.
+    if not os.environ.get('DISPLAY', 0):
+        os.environ['DISPLAY'] = ':0.0'
+
     try:
         import pygtk
         pygtk.require('2.0')