cairo/util/README
Tim-Philipp Müller 0ed1053d8f utils: remove hacky replacement for backtrace_symbols in glibc
Doesn't build any more, is very much non-essential, and hasn't
been touched in any meaningful way since it was added 13 years
ago, so just remove it for now until someone steps up. Chances
are the glibc version has improved since then.
2021-02-23 12:29:58 +00:00

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Cairo Utilities
===============
There are a varieties of utilities we use with cairo.
malloc-stats
------------
This is a small shared library designed to be preloaded by the
linker and its purpose is to make the malloc_stats() function
of glibc produce more useful information.
Build by:
make malloc-stats.so
and use by:
LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/malloc-stats.so app-to-run
cairo-trace
-----------
This tool can be used to trace all the cairo function calls made by an
applications. This is useful for either extracting a test case triggering
a bug from an application, or simply to get a general idea of how an
application is using cairo.
cairo-api-update and xr2cairo
-----------------------------
These two scripts were used to convert source code written for pre-1.0
cairo to newer API. See $(top_srcdir)/PORTING_GUIDE for more information.
These files are obsolete now and may be removed in a future version.
cairo-view and waterfall
------------------------
These are two pycairo scripts useful for testing the toy font backend.