Bug#582410: (Fwd) Bug#582410: libgtk2-perl: FTBFS on mips: Failed test 'callbacks encountered'

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:28:29PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > If the DISPLAY variable is empty, the unit tests will skip the
> > attempts to do real drawing and such, and only test binding and
> > marshaling code. This build mode is intended for use by automated
> > packaging systems, and may be the best option.
> 
> Ok.
> In general I'm a bit reluctant to skip tests, but if it's the
> upstream recommendation to skip those tests during automated building
> that seems like a good reason.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> 
> What do other people from the Debian Perl Group think?

I would say, let's follow upstream's reccomendation and thus skip for
now these tests. If we have some other possibility then to access a
mips machine directly we may try to further find more informations
about that.

Bests
Salvatore
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