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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: gspell requires root
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:28:52 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:02:02PM +0100, Catonano wrote:
> In building Gnome gspell I get this error message
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be
> created.
> 
> it seems that gspell requires the builder to be root; do I undertsand
> correctly ?
> 
> How do I deal with this ?

Hopefully it's possible to run the test without root. But if not, that's
okay. We have several packages that skip tests that require root
privileges.