Re: meson build system

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:15 AM Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:38 AM Vincent Torri <vincent.torri@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In ftopion.h :
> >
> > #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ
> >
> > which seems wrong
>
> Another person is bitten by the command line that 'sed' ftoption.h one
> way only... Neither Cmake, nor mason bother to 'sed' it back if the
> option is disabled.
> It is better to use -D than be lazy about editing files.

Please see ftoption_unset in builds/unix/configure.raw. This is how a
robust build system should handle this. Our Cmake and meson scripts
need to mature a bit to handle ftoption.h that was altered by whatever
winds or failed builds.
Or switch back to -D.

Alexei