Re: Running Xvfb during a package build -- good idea?

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Oh, and I forgot:

Richard W.M. Jones <rjones <at> redhat.com> writes:
> (b) Work with upstream to remove the need to run executables during
> the build.

You don't have to actually remove the need to run executables entirely, you 
just have to make sure the executables are built with the correct compiler: 
executables which run at build time have to be built with the native host 
compiler, not the target cross-compiler. If the executables are needed both at 
build time and at run time, they have to be built twice, once with the native 
compiler and once with the cross-compiler.

But if the executables are part of configure checks, then the correct solution 
is to provide a sane default for those checks for the cross-compilation case.

        Kevin Kofler