[cairo] Removing FontConfig dependency from Cairo

[Sylvain Pasche]

Mukul Sharma wrote:
> Dear members,
> 
> I had been trying to make cairo font support work over T-Environment 
> since a very long time, but have been facing the problems related to 
> Fontconfig. The environment, I am working on, will not support 
> fontconfig and my previous efforts have been failing.
> 
> I observed that such a talk had been going on last year, but could not 
> obtain enough information so as to proceed with any solution. Kindly 
> guide me regarding this. I wish to remove the use of fontconfig from 
> cairo completely. Is it possible in any way?

The patches from David Turner are separating the FreeType and FontConfig 
backends (so you can use FreeType without FontConfig):

http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-February/009838.html
http://david.freetype.org/cairo/

They may need some updating, though.

Sylvain