[cairo] Pixman ARM Performance

[Koen Kooi]

On 27-07-09 11:01, Jacob Bramley wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 24-07-09 18:53, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>>> Right now we are shooting in the dark and still have
>>> problems (not having -mfloat-abi option is also not good for current
>>> toolchains).
>>
>> I still don't see what the problem is for someone to put their floatabi
>> in CFLAGS. If setting CFLAGS is too hard for people I wonder why they
>> are trying to build from source anyway.
>
> Neither the README nor the INSTALL documents explain this, and for users
> who aren't familiar with the ARM tool-chains, it isn't at all obvious.

CFLAGS is a widespread and accepted standard practice.

> Why would you need to set "float-abi=softfp" to enable VFP code? I only
> know to do it because I've seen it before.

Isn't that really ARM Ltd's job to have that documented?