On Monday, 10 July 2023 at 20:05:58 GMT+8, Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote: > I've been preparing an update to the Debian package of FreeType and > realised ftinspect is limited to the meson build system only. Debian, > by default, has always used autotools.
> There are three build systems currently available for use in FreeType: > autotools, cmake and meson. As I understand past discussions, > autotools is the default (and fully supported). > If ftinspect and, potentially, other software is not going to be built > via autotools, is there a case to move to another build system? That's a bit unsatisfactory. Personally I only use the autotools/make to build. Also as far as I know, last I heard there is(was?) a bug of ttdebug being mis-built by meson - it is missing a -DUNIX or something of that sort to control the command buffering. I sort of feel like raising it from time to time when the GSoC students are updating the build system "have a look at fixing that too..." but ultimately it sounds like dumping uninteresting/tedious work on young people. I think Werner would respond at some point writing "patches welcome" for building ftinspect with autotools :-).
