Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The above is strange, since the code which uses font backends clearly
> meant something else:
>
>   #ifdef USE_CAIRO
>     register_font_driver (&ftcrfont_driver, f);
>   #else
>   #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE
>   #ifdef HAVE_XFT
>     register_font_driver (&xftfont_driver, f);
>   #else	/* not HAVE_XFT */
>     register_font_driver (&ftxfont_driver, f);
>   #endif	/* not HAVE_XFT */
>   #endif	/* HAVE_FREETYPE */
>     register_font_driver (&xfont_driver, f);
>   #endif	/* not USE_CAIRO */
>
> Here, xftfont and ftxfont are clearly 2 more-or-less equivalent
> alternatives, and bot rely on Freetype.  So I don't understand why not
> having XFT is taken by configure.ac to mean there's no Freetype,
> either.  Sounds like a mistake, or did I miss something?
>

Interesting. Glenn made that change in
46dcfee46cb241a0f8e34da679ca8b42e8ee8d46 , but thatʼs quite a while
ago.

Like I said, we can change stuff around here, but I think the easiest
thing to do is just get rid of it.

Robert