[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [11u] Backport of 8247872: Upgrade HarfBuzz to the latest 2.7.2

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/7/21 10:41 PM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any other reason why harfbuzz 2.7.2 needs to be backported to OpenJDK 11 beyond the fact that Oracle did it?
> 
> I think both, having to uplift compiler requirements and/or requiring additional system dependencies, would be a price too high to pay for this. And modifying the code to work without c++11 features doesn't seem feasible.

It does seem like a lot of work. maybe the issue is that HarfBuzz is no
longer supported, and wouldn't get critical updates.

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