Some GLib tests expect desktop things, such as an xterm, a MIME
database, the `update-desktop-database' program, which we don't provide.

--- glib-2.37.1/gio/tests/appinfo.c	2013-06-07 23:44:44.000000000 +0200
+++ glib-2.37.1/gio/tests/appinfo.c	2013-06-07 23:44:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -497,16 +497,10 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/basic", test_basic);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/text", test_text);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/launch", test_launch);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/show-in", test_show_in);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/commandline", test_commandline);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/launch-context", test_launch_context);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/launch-context-signals", test_launch_context_signals);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/tryexec", test_tryexec);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/associations", test_associations);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/environment", test_environment);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/startup-wm-class", test_startup_wm_class);
-  g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/supported-types", test_supported_types);
   g_test_add_func ("/appinfo/from-keyfile", test_from_keyfile);
 
   return g_test_run ();

--- glib-2.34.3/gio/tests/contenttype.c	2013-01-16 21:22:29.000000000 +0100
+++ glib-2.34.3/gio/tests/contenttype.c	2013-01-16 21:22:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -207,13 +207,6 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
   g_test_init (&argc, &argv, NULL);
 
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/guess", test_guess);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/unknown", test_unknown);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/subtype", test_subtype);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/list", test_list);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/executable", test_executable);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/description", test_description);
-  g_test_add_func ("/contenttype/icon", test_icon);
 
   return g_test_run ();
 }

--- glib-2.37.1/gio/tests/desktop-app-info.c	2013-06-07 23:46:28.000000000 +0200
+++ glib-2.37.1/gio/tests/desktop-app-info.c	2013-06-07 23:46:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ main (int   argc,
   g_setenv ("XDG_DATA_HOME", basedir, TRUE);
   cleanup_subdirs (basedir);
   
+  return 0;
   g_test_add_func ("/desktop-app-info/delete", test_delete);
   g_test_add_func ("/desktop-app-info/default", test_default);
   g_test_add_func ("/desktop-app-info/fallback", test_fallback);


-----------------------------
The hunk below removes tests that depend on `gdbus-testserver.py',
because that script depends on python-gobject.
 
--- glib-2.38.0.orig/gio/tests/Makefile.in	2013-09-23 23:07:46.000000000 +0200
+++ glib-2.38.0/gio/tests/Makefile.in	2013-09-30 21:55:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -172,19 +172,12 @@
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-auth				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-bz627724				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-close-pending			\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-connection			\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-connection-loss			\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-connection-slow			\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-error				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-exit-on-close			\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-export				\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-introspection			\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-names				\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-proxy				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-proxy-threads			\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-proxy-well-known-name		\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-test-codegen			\
-@HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gdbus-threading				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	gmenumodel				\
 @HAVE_DBUS_DAEMON_TRUE@@OS_UNIX_TRUE@	$(NULL)
 

The test below depends on the availability /etc/passwd to dbus-daemon.

--- glib-2.38.0.orig/gio/tests/gdbus-auth.c     2013-05-07 20:26:07.000000000 +0200
+++ glib-2.38.0/gio/tests/gdbus-auth.c  2013-09-30 19:42:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@
 {
   gint ret;

+  return 0;
   setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");

   temp_dbus_keyrings_setup ();


The test dbus-appinfo is dropped as it hangs indefinitely since 2.37.5, see
   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.37.5-1ubuntu1

--- glib-2.38.0.orig/gio/tests/dbus-appinfo.c   2013-09-05 12:43:41.000000000 +0200
+++ glib-2.38.0/gio/tests/dbus-appinfo.c        2013-09-30 21:57:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@
 int
 main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
+  return 0;
   g_test_init (&argc, &argv, NULL);
 
   session_bus_up ();