Re: [ft-devel] new FreeType release within a week

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2016.09.02 at 17:57 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:
> Dear Markus,
> 
> It's difficult to say which of FreeType or HarfBuzz is the responsible
> about this issue, but I've reported this to Behdad already on Aug/25.
> Using uint32_t integer (HB_TAG) in enum definition can cause such
> warning. It seems that no discussion is started in HarfBuzz mailing list.
> 
> Of course, FreeType2 build system can have some workaround (e.g. use
> more "permissive" CFLAG to compile the related part), but I think we
> should wait for some workarounds by HarfBuzz, because similar issue
> might be found in other softwares.

There is also an older thread:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2014-March/thread.html#4150

But it seems to have stalled.

As this only happens when using the HarfBuzz headers under C, simply not
using -pedantic on the affected file looks sensible.

-- 
Markus