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| author | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2008-10-28 17:18:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2008-10-28 17:18:34 -0700 |
| commit | cec689eab628b59ee1d69e241c5d336760304ea0 (patch) | |
| tree | 92e39aa230343b81980303e981d564ef62d63d86 /RELEASING | |
| parent | 0ca6ba18e398db7ed8f8bca5faa93d48aa3a4878 (diff) | |
RELEASING: Suggest running 'make distcheck' against Xvfb.
This avoids hitting driver-specific bugs in the X server, and is
better than doing 'DISPLAY= make distcheck' which simply disables
all xlib testing completely.
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASING')
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASING | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Here are the steps to follow to create a new cairo release: (But the tar file isn't actually ready yet, as we still have some more steps to follow). + Note that it's allowed (and perhaps recommended) to run the + "make distcheck" step against an all-software X server such as + Xvfb to avoid getting tripped up by any X-server-driver-specific + bugs. See test/README for details + If you get errors about local PLT entries, you get the list of cairo entries with the error. For each of these, a call to slim_hidden_def and slim_hidden_proto is needed in the cairo |