[HarfBuzz] XeTeX ICU and HarfBuzz in TeX Live

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 12-12-04 09:18 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 02:39:53PM +0100, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>>
>> I still have problems compiling harfbuzz for mingw32, I get error messages
>>   hb-open-type-private.hh: In function `const Type& OT::Null() [with Type = OT::Tag]':
>>   hb-open-type-private.hh:579: error: call of overloaded `CastP(const char[5])' is ambiguous
>>   hb-open-type-private.hh:55: note: candidates are: const Type* OT::CastP(const TObject*) [with Type = OT::Tag, TObject = char]
>>   hb-open-type-private.hh:58: note:                 Type* OT::CastP(TObject*) [with Type = OT::Tag, TObject = const char]
>>
>> It seems this is too complicated for gcc-3.4.  Any idea how to handle it?
> 
> I build cross compile HarfBuzz with mingw32 regularly, but probably
> gcc-3.4 is too old. 

Yeah.  This looks like a ridiculous compiler shortcoming.  We've had more
serious issues with gcc-3.x reported in the past, so I'm not going to sweat
over this one.

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