[cairo] Recommendations for 1.4.0

[Dave Yeo]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:39:20 +0100, Peter Weilbacher (Mozilla) wrote:

>Now, do I understand correctly, that the 1.4.0 release package does
>build on OS/2 out of the box and that it's just the tests that fail?
>I remember that for the tests I posted a patch here some months ago
>that added $(EXEEXT) to all the tests listed in the TESTS variable
>in tests/Makefile.am, similar to what Dave is suggesting above. At
>the time it was rejected because there was some overhaul planned for
>the tests makefile anyway. But it seems that it didn't happen yet?

It should build fine, at least a git-pull just before release did. Make
check still fails and should work fine with the correct $(EXEEXT)
added. tests/Makefile.am has been reworked and I haven't had time to do
that much experimenting.
Dave