remove 'x11' test from 'make test'

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Oct 28 22:09:10 CDT 2009


    Looks like for 10.5 it is

> defaults write org.x.X11 nolisten_tcp -boolean true

On Oct 28, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

> 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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