I'm trying turn an Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Developer Tools) managed build project into a Debian package and am having a lot of trouble. Since it's a managed build project, I can't simply run make. Eclipse can start a build from the command line (as described at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344797/962610#962610), but it apparently still requires an X server. I tried using xvfb-run to accommodate, and I simply can't get it to work. xvfb-run works if I invoke it directly, but whenever it's invoked from debuild, Eclipse locks up. I've tried a few different approaches to fixing it: I tried using -e for xvfb-run to see errors, but nothing looked relevant; I tried running xvfb-run from fakeroot, to see if fakeroot was the source of the problems, but it worked; I checked my environment variables, to see if debuild was stripping something that Eclipse + xvfb-run needed, but nothing looked relevant.
Any suggestions? Any known issues or gotchas in running xvfb-run from debuild? What's different about debuild spawning xvfb-run versus spawning it myself? -- Josh Kelley
