Possible homebrew freetype issue on macos 15.0 - 15.3

[Boosted-Bonobo]

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Description of issue

As I don't know exactly where to create an issue for this, I am writing here in the everyday usage category.

It seems that there might be an issue with the homebrew freetype package.

I have tested the last release of mpv for regressions and it seems it does not start on macos 15.0 to 15.3.

I created an issue there, but it seems that one of the developers really doesn't want to have a conversation, so I couldn't get any help there.

They are throwing the blame on homebrew.

I have build mpv 0.42.0 through nix and it works fine even on 15.0.

As I investigated more, I saw that the freetype version used in nix right now is still 2.14.3, as such I updated the version to 2.15.0 and rebuilt mpv, but to no avail. It still works.

Personally I am not completly sure where this issue stems from, but since the mpv developer thinks it might be from homebrew, I am writing this in hopes to be one step closer to the fix, for anyone else that might encouter this issue.

[p-linnane]

Our position is the same as in that upstream issue. We only support the latest patch release of each macOS version. If there is still an issue after updating to macOS 15.8.2, or one of the newer majors, we can look into it.

[Boosted-Bonobo]

Alright.

Thanks for the response.

It is unfortunate that homebrew only supports and tests on the latest patch of sequoia, since I'm sure there are users out there that still use older versions for one reason or another.

What is interesting to me is that it looks like it might be a regression on the homebrew way of doing things, as through nix there are no issues.

[cho-m]

FreeType 2.15.0 enables hvf feature by default if it finds headers and then always passes -lhvf while linking. Upstream does not provide option to disable in configure and macOS 15 seems to still link libhvf even when target is for 15.0 deployment target.

Not really an issue from Homebrew's perspective as previously mentioned, but we can extend compatibility by manually disabling the hvf feature, Homebrew/homebrew-core#323927.