>> If ftinspect and, potentially, other software is not going to be >> built via autotools, is there a case to move to another build >> system?
Well, yes. Meson will eventually become the main tool for building FreeType, I think (or rather, it definitely won't become CMake as the default). However, cleaning up the build system was/is a GSoC project, so nobody else touched it in earnest. In particular, I am not a specialist for Meson; additionally, Meson itself is still quite a moving target. > 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. Yep, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-demos/-/issues/24 > 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. It seems so, unfortunately. > I think Werner would respond at some point writing "patches welcome" > for building ftinspect with autotools :-). You are reading my mind :-) Werner
