[GRASS-dev] iconv a required dependency for using Freetype?

[Paul Kelly]

On Sun, 13 May 2007, Hamish wrote:

> Paul:
>>> * Fix gis.m to discard stderr from d.font as using R_font() seems to
>>> cause it to print some PNG driver messages to stderr
>
> that will also mask any real warning and error messages, which isn't so
> nice. Makes debugging + support much harder.
>
> Glynn:
>> d.font has to call R_open_driver() before it can call R_font(); with
>> direct rendering, R_open_driver() will run the driver's Graph_set()
>> function, which normally generates some stderr output.
>
> G_message() or G_warning()?

They were just messages. And d.font --q suppresses them. Thanks for the 
hint - have committed to CVS.

Paul