On Friday, 14 July 2023 at 03:53:10 GMT+8, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > Well, this is not how Meson support is currently set up in `freetype-demos`: in `subprojects/freetype.wrap`, HEAD of FreeType's > git repository is used. This is absolutely necessary while developing > since we regularly use new, not-yet-published features of FreeType in > the demo programs.
> I don't mind if someone is going to modify the Meson stuff to move > this requirement to an easy-to-use equivalent to `make devel`. Then a > standard Meson build could be against a system-installed FreeType Okay, that's a fair point - features simultaneously getting added in both freetype2 and tested in freetype2-demos. I probably will propose identifying some of the demos that don't (currently) needs private headers to have a "build-against-system" option. I mean cosmetic things like adding a toggle from one tool to another shouldn't need dev freetype. Hin-Tak