On 2014-02-18 22:58:53, ETHER wrote:
Show quoted text> With X11 running in the background, and installing this distribution
> with 'cpanm', X control was stolen and numerous small windows were
> drawn and removed. It looked like I'd been hacked!
>
> This is not appropriate for a non-interactive installation test.
This is normal behavior since decades, and also other CPAN modules implementing GUI toolkits are doing this.
If you don't like this, then you have some possibilities:
* set the DISPLAY environment variable to something invalid or unset it (but some CPAN modules are in need of a display and their tets may fail if there isn't one --- at least Tk does not fail if there's no DISPLAY)
* use a 2nd X11 server for tests
* use Xnest
* use Xvfb
* use a vncserver (my favorite, as you can run tests complete invisible, but hook into the display in case of problems)
* invent a new environment variable for skipping GUI tests and get this check into all relevant CPAN modules (Tk, Gtk2, Wx, Prima, X11::Protocol, various Tk::* modules ...)
Regards,
Slaven
