Changeset d9cf59b

Timestamp:

04/23/2012 11:52:52 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

Andrew Benton <andy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

5f5dcc2

Parents:

e173f329

Message:

Added a warning about running the Cairo tests

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@9982 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/lib/cairo.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

x/lib/cairo.xml

@@ -112 +112 @@
       <xref linkend="cogl"/>,
       <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
+      <xref linkend="gs"/> (for testing the postscript backend),
+      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (for testing the PDF backend),
       <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
       <xref linkend="libdrm"/>,
+      <xref linkend="librsvg"/> (for testing the SVG backend),
+      <ulink url="http://libspectre.freedesktop.org">libspectre</ulink> (for
+      testing the PDF backend),
       <xref linkend="mesalib"/>,
+      <xref linkend="poppler"/> (for testing the PDF backend),
       <xref linkend="qt4"/>,
       <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/skia/">Skia</ulink> and
-      <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org">Valgrind</ulink>
-    </para>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to provide extended test suite
-    coverage)</bridgehead>
-    <para role="optional">
-      <xref linkend="gs"/> (for testing the postscript backend),
-      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (for testing the PDF backend),
-      <xref linkend="librsvg"/> (for testing the SVG backend),
-      <ulink url="http://libspectre.freedesktop.org">libspectre</ulink> (for
-      testing the PDF backend) and
-      <xref linkend="poppler"/> (for testing the PDF backend).
+      <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org">Valgrind</ulink>.
     </para>
 
@@ -162 +157 @@
 
     <para>
-      To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Note that the tests take a long time to run and many of them fail for
-      unknown reasons.
+      Note that the tests take a long time to run, many of them fail for unknown
+      reasons and it has been known to cause a kernel panic. <!-- I suspect that
+      the panic was due to a bug in the xf86-video-ati driver but I can't be
+      sure as the system locked up hard. cairo-1.12.0 has exposed bugs in other
+      parts of Xorg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266 Andy
+      2012-04-22 --> If you want to run the tests issue:
+      <command>make -k check</command>.
     </para>