[HarfBuzz] [kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp: new XeTeX]

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-01-04 05:43 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> When building harfbuzz-0.9.10 (independent of TeX Live and XeTeX) I had to
> run ./autogen.sh (with Autoconf 2.69 and Automake 1.13 or 1.13.1) and got
> several warnings.

Ok, since 1.11.3 is significantly younger than 1.11.1 (which we currently
require), I'm a bit hesitant to bump the required version.  Can you help me
understand the warnings better?

> 
> (1) You could add AM_PROG_AR to configure.ac to remove some of them.
> This requires Automake 1.11.2 or better.

Why do we need this?  We don't call ar directly.  Is it libtool not requiring
what it uses?  What's the warning?


> (2) And you could replace
>     valgrind_verbose = $(valgrind_verbose_$(V))
>     valgrind_verbose_ = $(valgrind_verbose_$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY))
> in test/api/Makefile.am by
>     valgrind_verbose = $(valgrind_verbose_ at AM_V@)
>     valgrind_verbose_ = $(valgrind_verbose_ at AM_DEFAULT_V@)
> to remove the rest of them.
> This requires Automake 1.11.3 or better.

Again, what's the warning?  Has the recommended way to define verbosity rules
changed?


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