[vtkusers] vtkTextActor segfaults my render window

[Jérôme]

You got it! Thanks for all! Should I submit a bug about builtin freetype?

Not only this particular problem is resolved, but now I know what to do with
VTK_USE_SYSTEM_XXX.

Thanks again,
Jerome

2009/12/11 Marcus D. Hanwell <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com>

> On Thursday 10 December 2009 17:46:24 Sean McBride wrote:
> > On 12/10/09 9:31 AM, Jérôme said:
> > >I found back the gdb backtrace concerning
> > > vtk_freetype_FTC_CMapCache_Lookup, in a "Invalid read of size 4"
> section.
> > > I let you look into the log file, since I don't know much about that!
> >
> > VTK's freetype is a little out of date, I've been meaning to update it
> > and this might be another good reason to do so.  Not that I know for
> > sure that this is actually a bug in freetype...
> >
> May be try building VTK with the system freetype? I have done this and it
> works well aside from some tests failing due to what looks like improved
> text
> rendering.
>
> Turn on VTK_USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE and rebuild to see if this helps.
>
> Marcus
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> Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
> R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
> (518) 881-4937
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