Re: meson build system

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:24 PM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> > no test is done line 270, especially :
> >
> > ftoption_command += ['--enable=FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ']
> >
> > is set unconditionally
>
> Oh, you are using the latest tarball for building FreeType!  I have
> missed that, sorry.  Please use the git repository, which has this
> Meson problem already fixed (and which I used for testing your case).

Don't you think that a bug in the build system is worthy of a new
minor release ?

also :

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/meson.build#n267

missing test for png

and what about using
https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#summary at the end of
meson.build ?

Vincent Torri