remove 'x11' test from 'make test'

[Boyana Norris]

Thanks for looking that up (I am wondering why it's not default) -- I  
did that and hopefully X won't need restarting.

Boyana

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On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Barry Smith wrote:

>
>   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
>>>
>>
>