Hi, On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:35:31PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote: > > > So after your other patch for harfbuzz, this can probably be changed to > > > --with-harfbuzz? :-) > > > > That would create a cyclic dependency, because harfbuzz need freetype :-/. > > Would using a freetype-first.make file to build it without harfbuzz and then > rebuilding it with harfbuzz via freetype.make work? > > But I am unsure how much we gain from building freetype with harfbuzz > support, much nicer hinting?
In such cases I usually check what the 'big' distros do. Debian builds freetype without harfbuzz. So Ubuntu probably does the same. I don't know about the rest. With that in mind, I don't think it's worth the effort. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de
