bug#42844: 27.1; Emacs 27.1: SVG file not rendered as image

[phillip . lord]

My pleasure, and thank you very much for testing.

Phil

On 2020-08-24 21:48, Pierre Téchoueyres wrote:
> Hello Phillip,
> Tested today. Everything seems to work here.
> Thank you !
>
> Le vendredi 21 août 2020 à 18:54, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk a écrit :
>
> > On 2020-08-19 19:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:33:26 +0100
> > > > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> > > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 42844@debbugs.gnu.org,
> > > > gbiotti@gmail.com
> > > > Pretty sure all of this stems from 61c2183a440. I dropped using
> > > > pactree
> > > > and used pacman directly to determine dependencies. I also exclude
> > > > glib2
> > > > as a dependency hence the problem. If I include this, we go back to
> > > > getting python and half the of msys2 included in the download 
> > > > bundle.
> > > Too bad MSYS2 use such a "maximalistic" approach to dependencies.
> > >
> > > > I guess for Emacs-27 I should just include glib2 and be exclude so 
> > > > of
> > > > its dependencies (gettext and python probably).
> > > Something like that, yes.
> > >
> > > > The question is whether to do this for Emacs-27.1 or 27.2.
> > > I'd prefer 27.1, of course, if you can afford working on this soon
> > > enough.  Because 27.2 is at least a couple of months away.
> >
> >
> >
> > Okay. So I have uploaded a new version to alpha. It is about 10Mb
> > larger than before, and seems to render using harfbuzz and reports
> > (image-type-available-t 'svg) as true. The only change is this:
> >
> >
> > $ git diff
> > diff --git a/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> > b/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> > index 0e5f1ae1dc..0f18fe331d 100755
> > --- a/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> > +++ b/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> > @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
> >  ## Packages to fiddle with
> >  ## Source for gcc-libs is part of gcc
> >  SKIP_SRC_PKGS=["mingw-w64-gcc-libs"]
> > -SKIP_DEP_PKGS=["mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2"]
> > +SKIP_DEP_PKGS=["mingw-w64-x86_64-python3"]
> >  
> > MUNGE_SRC_PKGS={"mingw-w64-libwinpthread-git":"mingw-w64-winpthreads-git"}
> >  MUNGE_DEP_PKGS={
> >      
> > "mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread":"mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git",
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > So, we still avoid the mega bloat of python, but do pull in glib2.
> >
> > I would need to install this patch to Emacs-27. This would mean that
> > the Emacs-27 binary with deps version was not strictly build form the
> > emacs-27.1, but from a slightly later commit. Not a disaster I think
> > -- normally the deps file is built from an early version.
> >
> > I would plan to release this as "emacs-27.1" given that the previous
> > binaries were only every uploaded to alpha and not described as
> > "official".
> >
> > Phil