Libreoffice 6.1 branch fails to build against >=harfbuzz-1.8.1

[mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Stahl)]

On 09.07.2018 18:25, George Diamantopoulos wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been trying to build the current 6.1 git branch of libreoffice,
> and it seems that it has trouble finding some headers provided by
> harfbuzz. More specifically, compilation fails with:
> 
>> libreoffice-6.1.9999/vcl/inc/sallayout.hxx:28:10: fatal error: hb.h: No such file or directory
> 
> This is on gentoo, using the ebuild found in portage. I opened a bug
> on gentoo's bugzilla first, but I was told by a developer there that I
> should notify upstream. I checked for presence of the header file on
> my system, and it's available in the following path:
> 
>> /usr/include/harfbuzz/hb.h
> 
> You may find a build log and environment information at the
> aforementioned gentoo bug page:
> 
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/659896
> 
> Please let me know if I can be of further help. I've tried with
> harfbuzz 1.8.1 and 1.8.2, same result. I'm not sure if 1.8.0 is
> affected as well. Reportedly, libreoffice 6.0 builds fine with these
> library versions (not tested by me, other users said so in the gentoo
> bug page). Thank you.

on Fedora 28, i get:

> pkg-config --cflags harfbuzz
> -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include

given the location of /usr/include/harfbuzz/hb.h, the first include path 
in that output is what makes this work.