Re: Demain

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Thanks for taking care of Cairo!

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Linux from Scratch claims "This package does not have a working 
> testsuite.":
>    http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/cairo.html
> The archlinux package has disabled the tests, most of which are reported as 
> failing:
>    
> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/cairo
> Finally, the file test/README seems to imply that the test suite is rather 
> meant for internal development than to be run when installing:
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/test/README

All this sounds like an indication that we won’t be able to make much
out of this test suite.  I would disable it, and ideally ask on their
IRC channel or mailing list what they think.

Ludo’.