Re: Freetype font warning

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 22, 2011, at 5:58 AM, logari81 <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 18:17 -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:45 PM, David Bateman wrote:
>> 
>>> bpabbott wrote:
>>>> The octave_config_info gives information about the configure process. The 
>>>> problem appears to be that the configure script didn't find FreeType.
>>>> 
>>>> Did you install "libfreetype6-dev". You can check by ...
>>>> 
>>>> apt-cache search libfreetype6
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>>> 
>>> Ben,
>>> 
>>> I think the problem is that Octave shouldn't giving FreeType warnings
>>> when using the gnuplot backend and FreeType isn't installed. This changeset
>>> 
>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2be9e22796d2
>>> 
>>> added the warning and frankly it should only be warning of the absence
>>> of FreeType is the gnuplot backend isn't being used.
>>> 
>>> D.
>> 
>> I'll contact Kostas.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Ben
> 
> I can just remove the warning. This will disable the warning in the
> "update_text_extent" function for both fltk and gnuplot. This was
> actually the situation before the patch.
> 
> I think that freetype will be at some point in the future a prerequisite
> for octave anyway, even when using gnuplot, just for estimating text
> extents.

Good point.

> Should I just disable this warning for the moment?

Ok
Ben