[vtk-developers] Problem with vtkTextMapper::New()

[Philippe Pébay]

Thanks Marcus!
Philippe

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Philippe Pébay
> <philippe.pebay at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just noticed that adding vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL to the TEST_DEPENDS
> > entries appears to fix this problem.
> >
> > I view this as a problem because short of stepping through the code,
> nothing
> > indicates that this module must be included when using a library that
> uses
> > vtkTextMapper. Couldn't this be either done automatically, or result in a
> > configuration error when not done manually?
> >
> It is a known issue, I will see if I can dedicate some time to
> improving the situation. It is documented here,
>
> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Build_System_Migration#Implementation_Modules
>
> I should be able to at least add runtime warnings, if not automatic
> dependencies which is what we would ideally add. I will see what I can
> do in time for the holidays...
>
> Marcus
>



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