Python packaging question

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:22 -0500, Ryan Skadberg wrote:
> Sorta :)
> 
> So, I would like to try and get the latest version of straw in to
> extras (the current version is about 4 behind and a new stable release
> came out today).  The problem I have is that when checking for
> dependencies, it does an import gtk.  Well, import gtk for some reason
> actually tries to open the X Display.  As RPM unsets DISPLAY, it gets
> an error.  Now, as a workaround, I have set my display and it works,
> but I am guessing this will fail when there isn't actually an X
> display, so this doesn't really work outside of a quick compile while
> in X.  Anyone else seen this issue and if so, how did they work around
> it?

Perhaps use xvfb to set up an X display for the build process?

Paul.