On 06/16/2015 03:57 PM, LM wrote:
> Was reading through the BLFS entries for Cairo and Pango.  Cairo
> mentions glib as a required library.  Pango mentions fontconfig,
> freetype and harfbuzz as required libraries.  I currently have a build
> of cairo without glib on one of my systems.  Cairo is a prerequisite
> for webkitfltk and fifth.  I was unable to get pango to build without
> glib.  If it is not required, I'd very much appreciate hearing what
> configure switches were used to avoid it.
> 
> According to my notes from previous builds (and I'm not noticing any
> changes as I try to rebuild the packages now), cairo does not require
> glib.  I have zlib, png, freetype and pixman as the dependencies for
> my build of cairo.  Pango wouldn't build (at least not without glib)
> and at the time, I didn't pursue the issue any further since I didn't
> require pango for anything important.
> 

BLFS uses chain deps. Pango requires Cairo, which requires Glib2.

And no, you can't prevent Pango from requiring Glib2, it's a hard dep.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/tree/configure.ac#n444

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