Re: Pango

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> This dependency is new since pango 1.31; I might go back to version 1.30, 
> for which there is a recipe in nix.
>
> Or try to compile harfbuzz; but the current version 0.9.18 fails its tests 
> with endless error messages such as
> test_unicode-test-unicode.o:(.rodata+0x1d0): undefined reference to 
> `hb_unicode_script'
>
> Version 0.9.4 (for which there is a recipe in nix) compiles and passes its 
> tests. This looks like a need for bisection...

Woow, I had never heard of harfbuzz.

Do I get it right that the simplest options are: old harfbuzz + new
Pango, or old Pango alone?

I don’t know what functionality harfbuzz enables, but the above options
look acceptable to me as a start.

Ludo’.