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From: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Demain
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:49:39 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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On 06/13/2013 11:37 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 schrieb Andreas Enge:
>> Seras-tu dans ton bureau? Je m'énerve sur cairo...
>
> Sorry, wrongly addressed personal mail to Ludovic!
>
> But maybe one of you knows the answer to my problem:
> I created a recipe for cairo, and lots of tests fail. Now I wonder if this
> is the expected behaviour...
>

How many is "lots" ? :p Do you see the same test failures when trying to 
compile cairo by hand "outside of Guix" ?

> 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

Then this is probably not an issue. Can you link sample programs to 
cairo and see if they work ?

Cyril.