Re: [ft-devel] using pkg-config

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-09-17 07:14 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:58:27AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>
>>>> I will soon need the HarfBuzz library which doesn't provide a
>>>> `harfbuzz-config' script.
>>>
>>> That would be for GSUB closure I assume?
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> This will be tricky since it will cause a circular dependency
>>> between harfbuzz and freetype.  Let me think about it a bit.
>>
>> Uh, oh.  I currently see only two solutions:
>>
>>   (1) split HarfBuzz into two libraries
>>   (2) copy the GSUB closure stuff into FreeType
>>
>> Solution (1) means a lot of work for you, making HarfBuzz probably
>> more difficult to maintain, and (2) would be a nasty hack, with the
>> additional complication that HarfBuzz is written in C++...
> 
> I think harfbuzz-ft part can be split just like harfbuzz-icu, then
> freetype would only depend on the plain harfbuzz, but its will have to
> maintain its own harfbuzz font functions implementation (you probably do
> not even need most of them).

FreeType itself doesn't need harfbuzz-ft.  I can split, but this time it has
to be split into separate tarballs such that distros can build harfbuzz, then
freetype, then harfbuzz-ft.  But then hb-view and hb-shape depend on
harfbuzz-ft currently...

Let me think about it a bit.

> Regards,
> Khaled
> 

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