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

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-04-03 03:50 PM, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes.  Passing --disable-introspection to configure should do.


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