TheOldFellow wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to update the book with the current GLib, cairo, GTK+, >> pango and ATK stack, but I'm sort of stuck with what to do about >> cairo. The test suite does not behave properly. This is new to this >> version. Up till now I've always had cairo pass all the tests. >> >> First, I had the Glitz backend activated, and I didn't run the >> tests from a GL equipped xterm and the test actually stops and never >> finishes after crashing. Running the test on the console in X mode, >> ran okay, but I didn't have Ghostscript installed, so it bombs almost >> *every* test because it cannot find a gs executable. >> >> Then after installing gs, there are still 18 out of the 121 tests >> that fail, most of them related to pixel differences in png images. >> >> Any suggestions? Anyone else seeing these test failures? >> (note that I deactivated the experimental backends, glitz and XCB, >> and the tests still failed.) >> > > I don't run the tests, but cairo-1.4.0 (without glitz) is solid on my box.
Sometimes developers will update their program and not update their test suites and have some tests become invalid. I wonder if this is the case here. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
