On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 at 19:54:51 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I would guess that this might be because the upstream build system
> is only passing in libharfbuzz_gobject as a positional parameter
> to gnome.generate_gir in the Meson build (and a similar setup in
> Autotools), with libharfbuzz_dep in the dependencies list instead. To
> the GObject-Introspection tools, this is the same as saying that
> libharfbuzz_gobject is a positional parameter and the external libgobject
> library is a dependency.
Sorry, that should have said something more like:
... this is saying that libharfbuzz_gobject is the library we are
interested in, and libharfbuzz_dep is just a dependency, the same way
an external library like libgobject is a dependency.
smcv
