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diff --git a/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README b/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README deleted file mode 100644 index 39560a8..0000000 --- a/libs/cairo-1.16.0/util/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -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. - |