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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2008-10-28 17:18:34 -0700
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2008-10-28 17:18:34 -0700
commitcec689eab628b59ee1d69e241c5d336760304ea0 (patch)
tree92e39aa230343b81980303e981d564ef62d63d86 /RELEASING
parent0ca6ba18e398db7ed8f8bca5faa93d48aa3a4878 (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.
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@@ -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