Added a warning about running the Cairo tests

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@9982 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
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Andrew Benton 2012-04-23 11:52:52 +00:00
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@ -111,23 +111,18 @@
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="cogl"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
<xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
<xref linkend="libdrm"/>,
<xref linkend="mesalib"/>,
<xref linkend="qt4"/>,
<ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/skia/">Skia</ulink> and
<ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org">Valgrind</ulink>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to provide extended test suite
coverage)</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="gs"/> (for testing the postscript backend),
<xref linkend="gtk2"/> (for testing the PDF backend),
<xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
<xref linkend="libdrm"/>,
<xref linkend="librsvg"/> (for testing the SVG backend),
<ulink url="http://libspectre.freedesktop.org">libspectre</ulink> (for
testing the PDF backend) and
<xref linkend="poppler"/> (for testing the PDF backend).
testing the PDF backend),
<xref linkend="mesalib"/>,
<xref linkend="poppler"/> (for testing the PDF backend),
<xref linkend="qt4"/>,
<ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/skia/">Skia</ulink> and
<ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org">Valgrind</ulink>.
</para>
<note>
@ -161,12 +156,13 @@ patch -p1 &lt; ../cairo-&cairo-version;-expose-snapshot-1.patch &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>
To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
</para>
<para>
Note that the tests take a long time to run and many of them fail for
unknown reasons.
Note that the tests take a long time to run, many of them fail for unknown
reasons and it has been known to cause a kernel panic. <!-- I suspect that
the panic was due to a bug in the xf86-video-ati driver but I can't be
sure as the system locked up hard. cairo-1.12.0 has exposed bugs in other
parts of Xorg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266 Andy
2012-04-22 --> If you want to run the tests issue:
<command>make -k check</command>.
</para>
<para>