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

[Moritz Lennert]

Hamish wrote:
> 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  ^^^^^^^^

I think it is specifically a problem in 2.2.1.

Moritz