[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #4905] (grass) gis.m: d.text.freetype does not

[Hamish]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> 
> Actually, the fact that the space is missing it is a problem with 
> freetype 2.2.1:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-07/msg00009.html
> 
> So apparently not much we can do about it, just have to wait for the fix 
> to propagate to distributions or tell people to compile the cvs version ...
> 
> Unless we can use ft_render_mode_normal, instead of ft_render_mode_mono, 
> but trying that I just get completely garbled output on the screen, and 
> I don't have the time now to look into this any further.

I see this on Debian/stable using an older version of Freetype,

$ dpkg -s libfreetype6-dev
..
Version: 2.1.7-2.5

This is a security-update package from June,
  http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1095


> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-07/msg00009.html

                               July > June  ^^^^^^^^

?????

Hamish