On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:30:56 +0000
Ian MacArthur wrote:

> On 17 Feb 2021, at 07:40, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
> >
> > I think we should drop that "fallback" code because it can never be reliable. We should require pkg-config for pango as we do already for freetype/fontconfig and maybe Xft (not sure which ones).
>
> Do we depend on pkg-config for detecting XFT and fontconfig?
> I don't think I knew that; we didn’t use too (in 1.3 I mean) and I’m not sure it seems like a good idea - not all Linux boxes have pkg-config, and we used to be pretty solid at finding XFT when it was installed...

(been a while since my last list post)

IMHO pkg-config is a totally acceptable dep. Unlike e.g. cmake which is
massive, pita, and a massive pita, pkg-config is small, standard, and
the default macros let you override the flags. If you happen to build
on a very old Linux box and don't want to override the flags manually,
installing pkg-config is not a big deal (unlike cmake, again).

- Lauri

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