Re: [gtk-osx-users] Configuring harfbuzz issue.

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Jan 22, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My configuration macOS 10.15 / Xcode 11.3.
>
> I hadn't gone far :-(
>
> % jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-gtk3     
> ...
> *** Configuring harfbuzz *** [5/16]
> /Users/blady/Documents/Programmation/XNAdaLib/2020a/src-2020/harfbuzz-2.5.3/configure --prefix 
> /Users/blady/Documents/Programmation/XNAdaLib/2020a/xnadalib-2020 --with-coretext --with-icu  
> ...
> checking whether more special flags are required for pthreads... no
> checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... yes
> checking for GLIB... yes
> checking for CAIRO... no
> checking for FONTCONFIG... no
> checking for ICU... no
> checking for icu-config... no
> checking for ICU by using icu-config fallback... no
> configure: error: icu support requested but icu-uc not found
>
> Is some dependencies broken?

Pascal,

It's not broken, it's a soft dependency on either icu or icu55. The latter is to accommodate WebKit2.4 for 
projects that need the old WebKit1 API and threading model; WebKit2.4 doesn't work right with ICU later than 
version 55.

It wasn't often an issue because until last summer Harfbuzz wasn't used for anything other than freetype2. 
Now it's required by pango regardless of backend so I think a separate meta-moduleset for icu55 is warranted.

Until I get around to doing that just add icu to your module list.

Regards,
John Ralls