Re: Strange error rebuilding xfce4-thunar

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, at 11:14:14 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> While doing 'pkg_rolling-replace' under -current (from yesterday,
> amd64), I hit the following:
> -----
> 
> Making all in thunarx
> gmake[2]: Entering directory
> '/usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/xfce4-thunar/work/Thunar-1.8.2/thunarx'
>   GICOMP   Thunarx-3.0.gir
> 
> ** (g-ir-compiler:9273): CRITICAL **: 10:58:21.752: Failed to get
> connection to xfconfd: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
> gmake[2]: *** [/usr/pkg/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:172:
> Thunarx-3.0.typelib] Trace/BPT trap (core dumped)
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/xfce4-thunar/work/Thunar-1.8.2/thunarx'
> gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:802: all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/xfce4-thunar/work/Thunar-1.8.2'
> gmake: *** [Makefile:594: all] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
> 
> -----
> 
> What on earth is going on? Should I have a functioning X display while
> building pkgsrc? The laptop I use for this has its AMD FirePRO broken
> in a weird way, any attempt to start it with some graphics results in
> a hard reset with a subsequent message that the component has
> overheated, so I can only run it on the console.
> 
> If I direct DISPLAY to some other willing to accept connections, the
> build succeeds! It seems to me this is wrong...

FWIW, I can't reproduce this issue on a machine without DISPLAY set,
when simply doing "make replace" for this package. I don't use
pkg_rolling-replace, so I can't comment in that context.

Dave