Re: Potential patches (need review help)
Bryce Harrington <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:59:54PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:16:46PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=77338 > > > > Excludes sphinx for windows builds. The patch is fine, but I'm > > wondering: What is sphinx, some sort of search server? What are we > > using it for? (See also fdo #29319 for another sphinx build patch). > > The intention for sphinx is for detection of rendering errors inside > applications by simultaneously rendering on to the target device and on > an image surface and comparing the two. If it found a discrepancy, it > would then dump the trace that reproduces the error. (Then apply > delta-debugging to reduce that down to a minimal trace.) Aha, understood now, thanks. Bryce -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo