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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Huawei Inc.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Use system libraries instead of internal bundled copies.
+# It's better for code size and security (fix bugs in one place),
+# and startup time of something only run on a developer machine
+# hardly matters.
+
+DEPENDS += "libxml2 libcroco glib-2.0"
+
+do_configure:prepend () {
+	# Get rid of forcing bundled library versions
+	sed -i -e 's,gl_LIBXML(\[yes\]),gl_LIBXML([no]),g' -e 's,gl_LIBCROCO(\[yes\]),gl_LIBCROCO([no]),g' -e 's,gl_LIBGLIB(\[yes\]),gl_LIBGLIB([no]),g' ${S}/libtextstyle/gnulib-m4/gnulib-comp.m4
+	sed -i -e 's,force_included=yes,force_included=no,g' ${S}/configure ${S}/*/configure
+}