Heads up: planned Harfbuzz update in jdk11u-dev

[Baesken, Matthias]

For one of the next jdk11 updates, an update to a more recent harfbuzz version is planned.
This has been done already in jdk/jdk some time ago, and was backported recently to jdk13,
please see the harfbuzz 2.7.2 / 2.8.0 related changes done in jdk13 :

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk13u-dev/commit/e183f2d3650b6275a59d0cdd7303ca22f2ae088a
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk13u-dev/commit/64627b5061fdd15ed52e3858cb52bb6b3b2b020b
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk13u-dev/commit/c42c231e1dabd37ec09362291dc8141117ce0bbd

However the new harfbuzz 2.7.2 / 2.8.0 updates need C++11 support (they are built with option -std=c++11).
So please check that

a) your toolchain supports -std=c++11 or you have the option to update your toolchain to a more recent version


or as a workaround

b) check the -with-harfbuzz=system option to use another precompiled harfbuzz version from your system

Best regards, Matthias