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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, 39229@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: qt-build-system: Add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:24:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200122092415.GK1603@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4dbba6d-c3ab-484b-a423-833aa36f606c@crazy-compilers.com>

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 09:44:02AM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi Danny,
> 
> (forwarding to guix-devel to eventually get more opinions on this)
> 
> Am 21.01.20 um 23:43 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> >> +         (add-before 'check 'check-setup
> >> +           (lambda _
> >> +             (setenv "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "offscreen")
> >> +             #t)))))
> > Hmm, would it make sense to do that automatically in qt-build-system ?
> 

I was about to suggest this.
(ins)efraim@E5400 ~/workspace/guix$ grep QT_QPA_PLATFORM\" gnu/packages/kde*scm | wc -l
41
(ins)efraim@E5400 ~/workspace/guix$ grep define-public gnu/packages/kde*scm | wc -l
124
(ins)efraim@E5400 ~/workspace/guix$ grep qt-build-system gnu/packages/kde*scm | wc -l
27


> I would be fine with this, since I find myself adding this snippet quite
> often when building Qt/KDE applications. But there *might* be cases,
> where tests fail due to this setting. (While I'm not aware of one, I
> could imaging some test checks whether it is actually painting.)
> 
> Thus I propose implementing this in some way to easily disable it if
> required: Either
> 
> - by adding this a new phase (as in the snippet shown above), so it can
> easily be disabled
> 
> - by adding another keyword-argument (proposal: `#:qpa-platform`,
> default: "offscreen", if +f, will not be set.
> 
> WDYT?
> 

I like a new phase before the 'check phase. Are there other things we'd
want to add? Looking through kde-framworks.scm the only one I'd feel
comfortable adding would be the TZ ones.



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-01-22  8:44     ` qt-build-system: Add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen? Hartmut Goebel
2020-01-22  9:20       ` [bug#39229] " Mike Rosset
2020-01-22  9:24       ` Efraim Flashner [this message]

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