Re: cairo now default?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:01:29 +0000, Colin Baxter <address@hidden> said:
    Colin> I was thinking of a rather more mundane reason. For example,
    Colin> although Debian 9.11 has the right version of the harfbuzz
    Colin> dev library, Debian 8.11 doesn't. To me, Debian 8.11 does
    Colin> seem that old.

    > Debian stable is always pretty far behind, no? In any case, people
    > who donʼt have the right HarfBuzz library will just end up
    > continuing to use FLT like before, so nothing changes for them.

But this is not the case, surely. "emacs -q" from ./configure
--without-cairo looks different from "emacs -q" from ./configure when
there are is harfbuzz dev lib. The user who's always just done
./configure will see something different.

    > PS Your CC is malformed: it has a stray comma in it.

Yes, thanks. I haven't yet traced the reason.