On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 02:38:00 -0700 Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote:
> Just asking, does anybody still object about using C++ standard > library (ie. linking to it) in HarfBuzz? My personal experience makes me tremble at the thought. When I 'upgraded' from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, I was without a libstdc++ library, and it took me a long time to clean up the resulting mess. The cause of the problem was that the version of C++ compiler I had been using was too far in advance of the distributions, and as I upgraded it was removed and I was left with nothing in its place. The installation scripts written in Python largely or entirely failed. The prospect of being without a text layout engine is terrifying. C++ was so far out of sync with the general distribution because I used to compile LibreOffice, and a key header file there wouldn't compile with the older versions of gcc. Richard. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
