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Re: master 1ebe160: Warn about XFT and about Cairo without HarfBuzz


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: master 1ebe160: Warn about XFT and about Cairo without HarfBuzz
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:01:46 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Robert Pluim) writes:

> +if test "${HAVE_CAIRO}" = "yes" && test "${HAVE_HARFBUZZ}" = no; then
> +   AC_MSG_WARN([This configuration uses Cairo, but not HarfBuzz.  We
> +    recommend the use of HarfBuzz when using Cairo, please install
> +    HarfBuzz development packages.])
> +fi

I would assume that most people casually building Emacs would have no
idea what either Cairo or HarfBuzz is.  Perhaps it would be helpful to
say something like "uses the Cairo graphics library, but without the
HarfBuzz font rendering library"?

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