Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/18/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 11:58 CST: 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. Not sure. But what I'm looking

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/18/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 11:58 CST: 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. Not sure. But

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/19/07, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Can't say that I run the testsuite myself usually. However, I do read the cairo list archives pretty often. The testsuite is a very well exercised part of their development process and I think it should pass all tests

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/19/07 17:18 CST: This is probably a bug in their packaging, but I'd be interested to know if the test failures are associated with this. Actually, this looks like it's fixed to pass -fno-strict-aliasing correctly, but using the default CFLAGS would still

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread TheOldFellow
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.

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 11:58 CST: 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. Not sure. But what I'm looking for is someone to verify that the tests fail for them as

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/18/07 12:16 CST: Not sure. But what I'm looking for is someone to verify that the tests fail for them as well. I can't determine if it is the package, or my installation of it. I forgot about David's message that says the tests fail for him as well.

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 12:48 CST: 82 of 121 tests failed Do you have a 'gs' binary installed in your path? I had about that many fail when there was no 'gs' in my path. Installing Ghostscript cured about 60 of the tests. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 12:48 CST: 82 of 121 tests failed Do you have a 'gs' binary installed in your path? I had about that many fail when there was no 'gs' in my path. Installing Ghostscript cured about 60 of the tests. No, I don't have gs

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 13:07 CST: No, I don't have gs installed. Do you want me to do that and retest? If you want to, and that could confirm the failures. You probably want to ensure that you have GLib-2.12.11 installed as well, as that is what the book will have in just a

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:47, Randy McMurchy wrote: I always install ESPGS as it provides CUPS support and seems to be better maintained. That's what I assumed, from the frequency of releases. However, I'm not certain that it's going to have any more releases at all after reading

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:47, Randy McMurchy wrote: I always install ESPGS as it provides CUPS support and seems to be better maintained. That's what I assumed, from the frequency of releases. However, I'm not certain that it's going to have any more releases at

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 03/18/07 13:57 CST: That's what I assumed, from the frequency of releases. However, I'm not certain that it's going to have any more releases at all after reading http://www.cups.org/espgs/articles.php?L449 Does anyone know anything more about the

Re: cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/18/07 14:06 CST: I;d have to take a look at the contents of GPL Ghostscript 8.54, but if it supports CUPS, we should probably use that in BLFS as the only version if Ghostscript. Eventually, yes. And Ghostscript is now at 8.56, with this release just

cairo-1.4.0 test suite

2007-03-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
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