[cairo] Cross-built Cairo for ARM not drawing

[Marc Singer]

Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello Marc,
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Marc Singer <elf at synapse.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've been using cairo 1.2.4 for some time because it was the only
>>  version that was drawing for me.  Today, I tried 1.4.14 again and
>>  1.5.12 just to see if I could determine why I've had problems in the past.
>>
>>  I'm cross building for ARM using GCC-3.4.4.
>>
>>  The 1.4.14 build tends to draw narrow vertical bands of color.
>>
>>  Version 1.5.12 with pixman 0.9.6 doesn't show those bands of color, but most
>>  of the time the drawing is blank.  I've reduced the code to a simple
>>  example:
>>
>>     
>
> In openembedded(.org), we have cairo graphics working perfectly on ARM
> and PowerPC, and the revisions we tested are listed here:
>
> http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/cairo
>
>   
I'll look at your packages.
>>  Any suggestions as to where to look for such a problem?  BTW, I am
>>  configuring cairo without most of the backends:
>>
>>     
> This sounds like a toolchain problem, most probably either endianess
> related, or more probably (soft?) floating point related.
>
> I would strongly suggest to run some floating point tests on your target first.
>
> Personally, I mostly use a ARM/XScale (arm5teb) target, and PowerPC
> (e300) target in combo with cairo, no problems so far.
>
> Regards,
>   
It would be odd that the toolchain worked on 1.2.4 and didn't work on 
the others.
We're using soft-float and the target is armv4l.

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