Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 21:26:06 +0200 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ImageMagick-6.4.1-3_1 selftest fails Message-ID: <48386BCE.7040500@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <20080524151658.GW69430@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <48381B22.30507@janh.de> <18488.8559.136513.226315@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4838284A.3030400@janh.de> <20080524151658.GW69430@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: >> ... >>>> ImageMagick fails to build for me. I guess it is because I do the >>>> build as root while a different user "owns the display". (I do >>>> use kdm for login and start the build after su in a Konsole.) >>> Built just fine for me, about an hour ago, on -CURRENT with no >>> KDE involved. OPTIONS screen worked fine. >> Thanks. As I said, I tried to build with root while root was not allowed >> to use the display. Granting root access with 'xhost +local:' or 'setenv >> XAUTHORITY /usr/home/USER/.Xauthority' fixes the problem. Having to do >> that was kind of unexpected for me... >> >> Maybe I was just wrong trying this with 'su' as root instead of properly >> being logged in with 'su -'. Having a DISPLAY=:0 set but being >> disallowed from using it, may not be expected. > > I don't use KDE, but I do use xdm(1), so if I understand correctly, I > have a similar $DISPLAY ownership situation as yours. > > ImageMagick just built for me under 6.3-STABLE (also freshly built > today). (Although I track RELENG_6, RELENG_7, and HEAD daily, I only > build ports under RELENG_6, as that's what I actually mostly use.) Since only with the last commit to ImageMagick, IMAGEMAGICK_TESTS was turned back on by default, you may have saved OPTIONS with off being reused for the tests. Jan Henrik
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