Re: cairo now default?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:01:29 +0000, Colin Baxter <address@hidden> said:
    Colin> I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example,
    Colin> although Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz
    Colin> dev library, Debian 8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does
    Colin> seem that old.

    >> Debian stable is always pretty far behind, no? In any case,
    >> people who donʼt have the right HarfBuzz library will just end up
    >> continuing to use FLT like before, so nothing changes for them.

    Colin> But this is not the case, surely. "emacs -q" from ./configure
    Colin> --without-cairo looks different from "emacs -q" from
    Colin> ./configure when there are is harfbuzz dev lib. The user
    Colin> who's always just done ./configure will see something
    Colin> different.

    >> PS Your CC is malformed: it has a stray comma in it.

    Colin> Yes, thanks. I haven't yet traced the reason.


I have a serious flat-finger problem today!! What I meant to type is 

"emacs -q" from ./configure --without-cairo looks different from "emacs
-q" from ./configure when there are is NO harfbuzz dev lib.

Best wishes,