[HarfBuzz] build problem backporting harfbuzz 0.9.27-1 Debian package to Debian stable

[Faheem Mitha]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On 14-04-02 02:41 PM, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> See https://bugs.debian.org/734389. This is with 0.9.25, but I get a similar
>> problem with 0.9.27-1. I speculate in the bug report that
>> gobject-introspection needs to be a more recent version, but would appreciate
>> confirmation of this before I go haring off in that direction. Your configure
>> script does not pick this up, in any case.

> You are correct.  I suggest turning gobject-introspection off in your build.
> No one currently uses that.

Hi Behdad,

Thank you for letting me know. Just to be clear, you are saying that 
gobject-introspection is not required, and I should disable building with 
it? Can you tell me how I should do so? Thanks.

                                                           Regards, Faheem