Re: master d8da850: Document cairo-related fallout to font-backend settings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:39:53 +0100
> 
>     >> I see two options:
>     >> 
>     >> 1. give the Qftcrhb symbol the same name as Qftcr, which might do the
>     >> right thing, but would make it harder to work out whether HarfBuzz is
>     >> actually being used.
>     >> 
>     >> 2. just say "If youʼre going to be modern, be modern: Cairo requires
>     >> HarfBuzz" (note that this is the path that Pango is taking).
> 
>     Eli> I think 2 is the best alternative right now.  I don't think we should
>     Eli> make more radical decisions based on such incomplete experience, both
>     Eli> with the Cairo build and with HarfBuzz.
> 
> So a configure.ac patch that says 'if cairo && ! harfbuzz error_out'
> is pre-approved? Or did you have something else in mind?

No, I meant to say this in the docs.  Sorry for being unclear.  IOW,
recommend that people build with Cairo and HarfBuzz as the main
configuration.