The test suite depends upon many external factors and in order to achieve
a pass, your system must match that upon which the reference images were
generated. Add a note to read test/README in case of failures so that the
casual user is not unduly alarmed by cairo reportedly failing.
When the cairo-test-suite forks CoreFoundation complains with:
"The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
When forked so avoid doing it in the test suite for now. In the future we should investigate
the possibility of a work around.
The attached patch makes the SDL tests compile under Mac OS X. The
problem is:
1) that <SDL_main.h> should be included in files that define the main
function for SDL Mac OS X programs (this is not true with the upcoming
SDL 1.3 release).
2) that -lSDLmain, because it is statically linked, needs the Cocoa
framework in the LDADD of the main program. Again, 1.3 will not require
this.
Avoid calling libtool to link every single test case, by building just one
binary from all the sources.
This binary is then given the task of choosing tests to run (based on user
selection and individual test requirement), forking each test into its own
process and accumulating the results.
