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If you installed infinality-bundle
or the patched freetype2-infinality
you'll most likely recently have run into an error relating to the harfbuzz
package (>= 1.4.1-1), specifically something like: /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
.
This is because the packages provided by the Infinality repositories or even the freetype2-infinality
on AUR are and have been outdated for quite some time, since infinality-bundle's creator, bohoomil, has been missing/unresponsive for the past few months. freetype2
since has gotten new features and a changed ABI, one of which is a symbol named FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
which the updated libharfbuzz
tries to reference.
What this means for you is: you'll need a freetype2
version >= 2.7.1
where this change was initially introduced. Since the future of the infinality-bundle
is uncertain this is a good time as any to bite the bullet and remove it completely from your system until more is known. The font rendering won't be exactly the same, but with a few tweaks it will at least be similar.