On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, James McKenzie wrote:
Please take time to read through the remainder of the posts here, even though you've been here for a while. It is NOT possible to build Wine without some sort of X on the build computer right now.
Yep, I know. Which is why I wondered that configure did not bail out on my (the system in question was after an upgrade, and apparently something had gone wrong there. Which is why I asked here. ;-)
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
It's definitely supposed to fail in configure. That's handled by the standard autoconf built-in check for X. Please try to figure out why it doesn't catch that case.
I spent an hour or so back then, and again an hour today and could not get this to reproduce. Presumably it's some weird combination of things that I had addressed and then failed to go back to.
So, the only outcome of this is the little formatting patch I just submitted:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-September/093427.html
Sorry, Gerald