Re: building with libotf

[Frederik Hohlfeld]

Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org> writes:

> > This version doesn't have a pkg-config file, and Emacs uses the usual
> > PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro for this detection.
> 
> > There is a Debian bug about this, see http://bugs.debian.org/466815.
> 
> Yes. libotf started to provide libotf.pc for pkgconfig from
> version 0.9.5.  I recommend to use the latest version 0.9.8
> because some fonts distributed with the latest
> ttf-devanagari-fonts package have incorrect OTF data which
> causes the old version of libotf segfault.

I don't care too much about Devanagari and am not very eager to compile libotf
myself.

Is there an easy workaround, so that Emacs recognizes libotf and builds against
it nevertheless?

Thanks for reading
Frederik Hohlfeld