A good skia [was: Re: [RFC] Linaro Toolchain for Android and NDK]

[Jim Huang]

On 1 March 2011 10:45, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
[...]
> I'd like to use Skia as a toolchain benchmark but the upstream seems a
> bit messy.  I'm using this export:
>  http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/skia-0~svn788.tar.xz

hi Michael,

Thanks for your interest!

> from http://code.google.com/p/skia/ which I then build and run using
> these rules:
>  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/cbuild/trunk/view/head:/lib/skiabench.mk
>
> The code.google version seems a bit broken.  autoconf scripts are
> included but they don't work.  The non-autoconf Makefile assumes Intel
> with SSE2. The Android Skia seems to be a fork from some time ago and
> uses build scripts that are tightly tied into the Android build
> system.

Yes, don't use autotool inside skia package.

> What's the best version to use?  I'd like to standardise across Linaro
> for benchmarking so that results can be compared across groups, or at
> least so we don't get confused.

The skia maintainer, Mike Reed, made two branches: one is hosted in
Google Code, and another is
inside Android source tree:
    http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/skia.git;a=summary

I would suggest to use the later.

Also, here is my previous testing results:
    http://groups.google.com/group/0xlab-devel/browse_thread/thread/f76d8af5b01b2edc

Sincerely,
-jserv