Subject: Re: bug#41421: 28.0.50; HarfBuzz font shaping library not found

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 08:50:09 +0200

On 20.05.20 18:26, Robert Pluim wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 20 May 2020 17:52:33 +0200, Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> said:
>      Andreas> At Linux SOME 3.16.0-10-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.81-1 (2020-01-17)
>      Andreas> i686 GNU/Linux
>
>      Andreas> With trunk from today, running
>
>      Andreas> ./configure --with-modules --with-mailutils
>
>      Andreas> get the following warning:
>
>      Andreas> configure: WARNING: This configuration uses the Cairo graphics library,
>      Andreas>     but not the HarfBuzz font shaping library.  We recommend the use
>      Andreas>     of HarfBuzz when using Cairo, please install HarfBuzz development
>      Andreas>     packages.
>
>      Andreas> libharfbuzz-dev however is installed, as told by apt-get.
>
> Does config.log provide any clues as to why configure didnʼt find
> harfbuzz?
>
> What does
>
>      pkg-config --exists --print-errors "harfbuzz >= 1.2.3"
>
> return? Itʼs possible you need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to
> include the location of libharfbuzz.pc
>
> Robert

configure:15649: checking for harfbuzz >= 0.9.42
configure:15656: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "harfbuzz >= 0.9.42"
Requested 'harfbuzz >= 0.9.42' but version of harfbuzz is 0.9.35
configure:15659: $? = 1
configure:15673: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "harfbuzz >= 0.9.42"
Requested 'harfbuzz >= 0.9.42' but version of harfbuzz is 0.9.35
configure:15676: $? = 1
configure:15690: result: no
Requested 'harfbuzz >= 0.9.42' but version of harfbuzz is 0.9.35

Thanks,

Andreas