We don’t need it and it breaks the build because FontConfig renamed its
master branch and the released version of Cairo wants to build
FontConfig from master branch.
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.github.io/issues/4
From CI logs at https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/runs/2758234200:
+ git init
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint: git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint: git branch -m <name>
We want the branch too be main not master.
Apparently the previous version of gtk-doc was doing weird changes like 1b40da99bb and d1d9bff14c
in order to make every to have something for pushing and
now that we don't have such changes it will fail.
Alternatively we can go for `git commit --allow-empty`, guess better to
pollute history of https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.github.io however.
As a part of meson migration, this builds hb-shape dependencies
using meson subprojects and removes different unrelated mingw
files we've put on source root about things that aren't really our
concern. This also simplifies all the instructions we've put in
README.mingw.md and makes it easy to build the project on
distros that no mingw libraries (such i686-win32-{freetype,glib,...}
are packaged. The known catch is however lack of hb-view as its need
for build of cairo which apparently isn't that straightforward.
Khaled Hosny
Caleb Maclennan
Ebrahim Byagowi
Khaled Hosny
Behdad Esfahbod