[GRASS-dev] r.profile + wingrass: missing libfreetype-6.dll - SOLVED

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Enrico Gallo <enrico.gallo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> in my win7 installation, r.profile is not working in Grass 6.4.3 in
>> GUI nor in CLI
>>
>> The problem is related to missing libfreetype-6.dll
>>
>> I solved copying libfreetype-6.dll in Grass lib directory; see this
>> old message  [0]
>>
>
> Hi devs, I don't understand why libfreetype is required for r.profile. It is required for all modules
> or is r.profile in G6 doing something I don't know about?

r.profile offers
  -i   Interactively select End-Points

which requires the DISPLAY lib which in turn wants the libfreetype...
(IMHO - I used "ldd").

So it is a secondary dependency.

Markus