Re: building with libotf

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>]

Frederik Hohlfeld wrote:

> Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org> writes:
> 
>> > This version doesn't have a pkg-config file, and Emacs uses the usual
>> > PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro for this detection.
>> 
>> > There is a Debian bug about this, see http://bugs.debian.org/466815.
>> 
>> Yes. libotf started to provide libotf.pc for pkgconfig from
>> version 0.9.5.  I recommend to use the latest version 0.9.8
>> because some fonts distributed with the latest
>> ttf-devanagari-fonts package have incorrect OTF data which
>> causes the old version of libotf segfault.
> 
> I don't care too much about Devanagari and am not very eager to compile
> libotf myself.
> 
> Is there an easy workaround, so that Emacs recognizes libotf and builds
> against it nevertheless?
> 
> Thanks for reading
> Frederik Hohlfeld

On fedora I use this:
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=/usr
libdir=/usr/lib64
includedir=/usr/include

Name: libotf
Description: OpenType font library
Version: 0.9.8
Requires: freetype2
Libs: -lfreetype -L${libdir} -lotf
Cflags: -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I${includedir}