[vtkusers] vtkTextActor segfaults my render window

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

I am glad we got to the bottom of this issue - all of the USE_SYSTEM_* force 
VTK to use the system installed library. I often use them (decreases compile 
time for example) but fort the dashboards it can cause some test failures - 
newer freetype has nicer text alignment that fails the image diffs for 
example.

Marcus

On Friday 11 December 2009 03:42:37 Jérôme 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
> 
> 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 VTK's freetype is a little out of date, I've been meaning to update it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