From cec689eab628b59ee1d69e241c5d336760304ea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:18:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- RELEASING | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASING b/RELEASING index 58f231718..ae70ae6eb 100644 --- a/RELEASING +++ b/RELEASING @@ -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