On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:40:59PM -0400, Josh Kelley wrote:
> I'm trying turn an Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Developer Tools) managed build project
> into a Debian package and am having a lot of trouble. Since it's a managed
> build project, I can't simply run make. Eclipse can start a build from the
> command line (as described at
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344797/962610#962610), but it apparently
> still requires an X server. I tried using xvfb-run to accommodate, and I
> simply can't get it to work. xvfb-run works if I invoke it directly, but
> whenever it's invoked from debuild, Eclipse locks up. I've tried a few
> different approaches to fixing it: I tried using -e for xvfb-run to see
> errors, but nothing looked relevant; I tried running xvfb-run from fakeroot,
> to see if fakeroot was the source of the problems, but it worked; I checked
> my environment variables, to see if debuild was stripping something that
> Eclipse + xvfb-run needed, but nothing looked relevant.
>
> Any suggestions? Any known issues or gotchas in running xvfb-run from
> debuild? What's different about debuild spawning xvfb-run versus spawning
> it myself?