Author: andy
Date: 2012-04-23 05:52:52 -0600 (Mon, 23 Apr 2012)
New Revision: 9982
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml
Log:
Added a warning about running the Cairo tests
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml 2012-04-23 11:37:46 UTC (rev 9981)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml 2012-04-23 11:52:52 UTC (rev 9982)
@@ -111,25 +111,20 @@
<para role="optional">
<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>
+ <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).
- </para>
-
<note>
<para>
There is a reciprocal dependency with cairo and libdrm. Best practice
is
@@ -161,15 +156,16 @@
make</userinput></screen>
<para>
- To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
+ 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>
<para>
- Note that the tests take a long time to run and many of them fail for
- unknown reasons.
- </para>
-
- <para>
Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
</para>
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