On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 22:59:11 +0200 Rolf Langenhuijzen <rolf.langenhuij...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Was away from Harfbuzz for a while, but today tried to get it running > (as expected) on a freshly installed server Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit. I > followed the build instructions at > https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/blob/master/BUILD.md > <https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/blob/master/BUILD.md> to setup > the basic packages etc. > > I kept some old notes from previous installations (going back to > 0.9.26 I think), and after downloading in the root home folder; > - sudo ./autogen.sh > - sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr > - sudo make && make install > > (sometimes the configure was with more options, but as this was for > basic use anyway, I didn’t add any) > > After this I usually copied util/hb-view to /usr/local/bin and that > was it (used it from there instead of /usr/bin). > > But, now with 1.5.1, I noticed the util/.libs folder that final > hb-view build (was also copied in /usr/bin). When I run hb-view > —version I get: > - hb-view (HarfBuzz) 1.5.1 > - Available shapers: graphite2,ot,fallback > - Linked HarfBuzz library has a different version: 1.0.1 > > Question: why is that 3rd line there? I think the problem is that ./configure --prefix=/usr has caused the system Harfbuzz library to be used. (Or is the problem that it should have been sudo make && sudo make install?) I did a simple: git clone https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz.git harfbuzz-git cd harfbuzz-git ./autogen.sh make distclean mkdir jrw1 cd jrw1 ../configure CFLAGS=-g CXXFLAGS=-g --no-recursion --with-graphite2 make The command "hb-view --version" then yielded: lt-hb-view (HarfBuzz) 1.5.1 Available shapers: graphite2,ot,fallback Ubuntu 16.04 is saddled with Version 1.0.1 of HarfBuzz. For Cham and Tai Tham, there is a fundamental bug in Indic rearrangement. One can be a good boy, and install HarfBuzz 1.2.7 via Debian packages. I used the instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto and proceeded as follows: Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety main restricted universe multiverse Then you'll need to update your repos: sudo apt-get update Now we need to install some packages so we can build the desired software in intrepid: sudo apt-get build-dep libharfbuzz0b Now we can do the following to get the package built from yakkety on our hardy machine: sudo apt-get -b source -t yakkety harfbuzz This created as set of 8 Debian package files: gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0_1.2.7-1_i386.deb libharfbuzz0b_1.2.7-1_i386.deb libharfbuzz0-udeb_1.2.7-1_i386.udeb libharfbuzz-bin_1.2.7-1_i386.deb libharfbuzz-dev_1.2.7-1_i386.deb libharfbuzz-doc_1.2.7-1_all.deb libharfbuzz-gobject0_1.2.7-1_i386.deb libharfbuzz-icu0_1.2.7-1_i386.deb The final step is sudo dpkg -i libharfbuzz0b_1.2.7-1_i386.deb This fixes the rendering problem. I need to insert some other of the packages in various orders to make the Debian control system happy. Going higher than 1.2.7 raises potential issues with build dependencies on Xenial, or at least did when I investigated the problem. For me, the most significant client application is LibreOffice, and that seemed to work well when I simply replaced system libraries with those I built from Version 1.4.6. (Firefox bundles HarfBuzz.) > When I run a simple hb-view test I get: > - hb-view: symbol lookup error: hb-view: undefined symbol: > hb_font_set_variations > > Question: what does this mean? Probably as symptom of mismatched source and library. > Should I destroy this server and start over? Probably. I don't know if Ubuntu has recovered the desktop quality of 12.04 Precise. The smartish keyboards are a disaster. My KMfL keyboards are selected unbidden (I could do with a hotkey to select the allegedly selected keyboard) until the ibus daemon dies. However, there's no evidence that you've misinstalled 16.04. Richard. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
