Re: gEDA-user: PCB, configure: error: batch is not a valid gui

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 17:34 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 18:26 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 14:42 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > A related question:
> > 
> > Is --enable-dbus only valid in conjunction with a GUI (GTK/Motif) or can
> > dbus be used if PCB is compiled without GUI (we have a bug related to
> > this in Gentoo bugzilla database).
> 
> The dbus support relies on about 4 hooks provided by the HID interface
> which are only implemented in the GTK and Lesstif HIDs.
> 
> They relate to timers and file-watches (for IO). These allow the DBus
> library to integrate with the main-loop of the running GUI. It won't
> work without them, so I guess the easy answer is.. no, the Batch HID
> does not support DBus.
> 
> If anyone had a use-case for a DBus enabled batch HID, then either the
> hooks could be implemented (along with a home-brew main-loop), or more
> sensibly, make the batch HID dependent on GLib and its main-loop, then
> take the hook code straight from the GTK HID.
> 

Thanks for this detailed anwer, this saves me some testing.

My guess (from grep output) is that something like

--with-gui=none or --with-gui=no

will suppress the GUI.

Indeed makes more sense to me as --with-gui=batch mentioned
in ./configure -- help output.

Best wishes

Stefan
  




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