Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/fonts/harfbuzz

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:55:20PM +0100, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> I think that we should request a pull up for netbsd-6 and netbsd-7

I have requested a pullup to 7, but 6 has a different version of
freetype2 (2.4.5 I think), for which the pkgconfig file is also wrong,
though.

> otherwise we will probably be not able to build x11/gtk2 on NetBSD in
> the next pkgsrc-2015Q1 (x11/gtk2 requires devel/pango that requires
> fonts/harfbuzz).
> If fonts/harfbuzz configure script fails against `pkg-config --exists
> --print-errors "freetype2 >= 12.0.6"` devel/pango will fail because
> needs <hb-ft.h>.
> 
> Another possible solution is - maybe - to convert the configure in
> fonts/harfbuzz in order to use `freetype-config --ftversion` and just
> check it against 2.4.2.
> 
> 
> What do you think?

Or we just override the detection and fill in the values it wants
(CFLAGS, LIBS). Probably easiest and avoids a patch that can't be sent
upstream.
 Thomas