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Assign Builder Environment Variable?

Asked by M.Hanny Sabbagh

I have an issue in building a package on Launchpad, the error message is:

"Failed to connect to D-Bus: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY"

Which seems to me that I need to define $DISPLAY variable on the build machine, but how can I do it in Launchpad? I mean, in the build log, there's a section like this:

User Environment
----------------
APT_CONFIG=/var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noautodbgsym parallel=4
HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent
....

And I want to add a DISPLAY variable in there, is there a way to do this?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

You can export whatever variables you like in debian/rules.

However, just setting DISPLAY won't help you, because you won't have a running X server to talk to. Rather than setting DISPLAY, I think you want to run the relevant bit of the build inside dbus-run-session. See "man dbus-run-session" for more information.

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