remove 'x11' test from 'make test'

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Oct 28 21:04:36 CDT 2009


Perhaps the relavent setting can be toggled with:

defaults com.apple.x11 nolisten_tcp -boolean true

http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2005/May/msg00073.html

Satish

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>  On my Mac
> 
> bsmith-laptop:~/Src/petsc-dev] barrysmith% echo $DISPLAY
> /tmp/launch-r289TD/:0
> 
> I don't seem to have a problem with X when I change my IP address. I carry my
> laptop around open it and use X and it pretty much always works.
> 
>   Barry
> 
> 
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Boyana Norris wrote:
> > 
> > > Apart from the idiot reasons, X11 tests can easily fail on an Apple laptop
> > > because the X server becomes unusable every time the IP changes, which is
> > > fairly frequently. I don't really use X a lot and thus do not restart the
> > > server every time I move the laptop, so these tests fail almost all the
> > > time
> > > (but I've learned to ignore those errors).
> > 
> > Linux on laptops used to have this problem - but it doesn't exist anymore.
> > 
> > The reason is - x-server is now bound-to/listen-on a unix socket [:0]
> > - and not a tcp socket [localhost:0] - so hostname change doesn't
> > affect it. [from ps:]
> > 
> > /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth
> > /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-l9vnzI/database -nolisten tcp
> > 
> > Not sure how this can be done on mac/windows..
> > 
> > Satish
> 




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