build.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Build from autotools(-like) tarballs
tarball_build() (
    if [ "$#" -lt 3 ] ; then
        echo "Usage: tarball_build <name> <url-format> <version> [configure_options...]"
        exit 2
    fi

    url="$(printf "$2" "$3")"
    filename="tmp-${url##*/}"
    name="$1"
    version="$3"
    shift 3

    # Cosmetic print to make logs easier to read
    txt="$(printf 'Building %s' "$name")"
    txtlen="$(printf '%s' "$txt" | wc -m)"
    printf '\n\n%s\n%.*s\n' "$txt" "$txtlen" \
        "================================================================================"

    # Add --insecure if installed certs become too old, to ignore verification errors
    curl --location "$url" > "$filename"
    tar xf "$filename"
    rm "$filename"
    cd "$name"-"$version"

    ./configure "$@"
    make -j "$(nproc)"
    sudo make install
    make clean
)

mkdir -p /tmp/build
cd /tmp/build

## GNU FriBidi
### 0.19.7 is the first version being thread-safe by default
urlfmt='https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/0.19.7/fribidi-%s.tar.bz2'
tarball_build fribidi "$urlfmt" "0.19.7"

## FreeType2 (without HarfBuzz)
### Internal version 9.17.3 == external version 2.3.6
urlfmt='https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-old/freetype-%s.tar.bz2'
tarball_build freetype "$urlfmt" "2.3.6"

## HarfBuzz
urlfmt='https://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-%s.tar.bz2'
tarball_build harfbuzz "$urlfmt" "1.2.3"

## Fontconfig
urlfmt='https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-%s.tar.bz2'
tarball_build fontconfig "$urlfmt" "2.10.92"

## libunibreak
### libunibreak moved to GitHub with version 3.0. All prior release tarballs are only on sourceforge
urlfmt="https://sourceforge.net/projects/vimgadgets/files/libunibreak/1.1/libunibreak-%s.tar.gz/download"
tarball_build libunibreak "$urlfmt" "1.1"

# Clean up
cd /
rm -fr /tmp/build

sudo ldconfig