[vtkusers] vtkTextActor segfaults my render window

[Bill Lorensen]

Yes, you should file a bug.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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 VTK's freetype is a little out of date, I've been meaning to update it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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