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RELEASING: Suggest running 'make distcheck' against Xvfb.

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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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Carl Worth 2008-10-28 17:18:34 -07:00
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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