compile as root should not start a display

[Beeblebrox]

I can't build firefox, because after build is almost done, there is a step where it configures firefox and needs to open a browser interface. I traced the error to:

Error: couldn't open display (null)

Well, it's not an error really, since I "su -l" to get root and start the build that way. A GUI launch request from root, no matter what the app is, gets halted - as it should. What is to be done about this situation?

 

[wblock@]

Turn off whatever option is enabled that wants to run the browser. It's not a default option. Or use just % su (no dash) to get the non-root user's environment and DISPLAY setting.

But really, turn off the option that's doing that.

 

[Beeblebrox]

Do you know which one of these it would be?

[*] GCONF             GConf configuration backend

[*] PGO               Use Profile-Guided Optimization

 

[wblock@]

PGO would be my guess.