[Buildroot] gtk+
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Jul 3 19:07:12 UTC 2012
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I don't quite understand why pango needs C++ support though. As far as I
>> know it is written in plain C. The pango Config.in file refers to
>> freetype:
>>
>> depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # freetype support
>>
>> But freetype itself doesn't depend on C++ support.
Thomas> I haven't looked in details, but:
Thomas> commit 1c4dbb5fa7df89731e5d59f680e9dc34f24f8835
Thomas> Author: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk>
Thomas> Date: Mon Aug 30 10:02:39 2010 +0200
Thomas> pango: needs C++ for freetype handling
Thomas> Pango was recently updated to v1.28 as a dependency of
Thomas> webkit, but its freetype support has unfortunately been
Thomas> rewritten with parts in C++ (since pango 1.25), so adjust
Thomas> dependencies of pango and users of it to require C++
Thomas> support.
Ahh yes, the harfbuzz text shaping engine:
find -name \*.cc
./pango/opentype/hb-font.cc
./pango/opentype/hb-ot-layout.cc
./pango/opentype/main.cc
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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