Cargo pulling in source dependencies even when the source feature is disabled
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Description
For example, this section means that compiling for a linux target will always require fontconfig to be available, even when the source feature is not enabled: https://github.com/servo/font-kit/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L61-L62
This means that eg. cross-compiling becomes more difficult, since you now need fontconfig compiled for the target system, even though you don't intend to use it.
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Read Cargo.toml around lines 61-62 and inspect how the source feature and fontconfig dependency are declared. Reproduce a Linux-target build with the source feature disabled, then verify that fontconfig is no longer required for that configuration.
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
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