[vtkusers] Compilation error on Arch Linux 64-bit

[Oon-Ee Ng]

Ah and I had just sent my email to vtk-developers =). Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The current package of vtk in Arch Linux 64-bit was compiled by our
>> maintainers on Dec 7th, 2014.
>>
>> I'm now trying to recompile it for QT5 support (rather than the
>> default chosen by our maintainer, QT4), but am running into the
>> following compilation error[1] which I can't seem to find anywhere
>> else. Seems a simple template change, to my untrained eye.
>>
>> Any advise would be appreciated. In the past month we (Arch Linux)
>> haven't had any significant package upgrades, some rebuilds (including
>> of glibc and gcc) but maintaining the same version. If someone could
>> point me to a direction for further investigation that would be
>> appreciated.
>>
> This looks like a change in the API of FreeType, tried with system
> library and could reproduce your compile failure.
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/5259 is a patch that fixes it
> locally.
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
> Marcus