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author | sanine <sanine.not@pm.me> | 2022-10-12 12:03:23 -0500 |
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committer | sanine <sanine.not@pm.me> | 2022-10-12 12:03:23 -0500 |
commit | 530ffd0b7d3c39757b20f00716e486b5caf89aff (patch) | |
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diff --git a/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README b/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39560a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +Cairo Utilities +=============== + +There are a varieties of utilities we use with cairo. + + +backtrace-symbols +----------------- + +This is a small shared library designed to be preloaded by the +linker and its purpose is to make the backtrace_symbols() function +of glibc produce more useful source reference information. + +Build by: + + make backtrace-symbols.so + +and use by: + + LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/backtrace-symbols.so app-to-run + +This code should be contributed back to glibc at some point. + + +malloc-stats +------------ + +This is a small shared library designed to be preloaded by the +linker and its purpose is to make the malloc_stats() function +of glibc produce more useful information. + +Build by: + + make malloc-stats.so + +and use by: + + LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/malloc-stats.so app-to-run + +This works best when backtrace-symbols is in use. That is: + + LD_PRELOAD="$PWD/backtrace-symbols.so $PWD/malloc-stats.so" app-to-run + + +cairo-trace +----------- + +This tool can be used to trace all the cairo function calls made by an +applications. This is useful for either extracting a test case triggering +a bug from an application, or simply to get a general idea of how an +application is using cairo. + + +cairo-api-update and xr2cairo +----------------------------- + +These two scripts were used to convert source code written for pre-1.0 +cairo to newer API. See $(top_srcdir)/PORTING_GUIDE for more information. + +These files are obsolete now and may be removed in a future version. + + +cairo-view and waterfall +------------------------ + +These are two pycairo scripts useful for testing the toy font backend. + |