2.7.3 configure doesn't support --enable-introspection

[rworkman]

and this breaks quite a few things depending on HarfBuzz-0.0.typelib remaining in place from 2.7.2 to 2.7.3

[rworkman]

Solution appears to be "use meson to build" and that's fine if there's some notification that it's necessary...
If that's going to be the solution, then kill the autotools support entirely - as a distro person, I'd rather know up front that I have to convert my build to meson than to distribute a point release that breaks all sorts of stuff.

[alerque]

We started recommending distros packagers switch to Meson in the 2.7.0 announcement. We don't have an end date for completely deprecating autotools support yet, but it's been mentioned many times.

I don't think the --enable-introspection breakage was intentional though. I agree such a removal would have deserved an announcement. However I don't think there was a removal. Possibly a regression, but one can't exactly expect announcement of unintentional regressions.

Also I'm not convinced the only solution is to use Meson (although that is recommended). Discussion on #1202 suggests to me that you can still do this with autotools, but that you need to explicitly enable GObject support too. Given how many other issues mention this with various other iterations of confusion it does sound like at the very least documentation about this feature might be lacking.

[rworkman]

Seems like a good time to officially kill the autotools support :-)

[khaledhosny]

This is fixed in 2.7.4 release.