Re: Freetype font warning

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:45 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> bpabbott wrote:
>> The octave_config_info gives information about the configure process. The 
>> problem appears to be that the configure script didn't find FreeType.
>> 
>> Did you install "libfreetype6-dev". You can check by ...
>> 
>> apt-cache search libfreetype6
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> Ben,
> 
> I think the problem is that Octave shouldn't giving FreeType warnings
> when using the gnuplot backend and FreeType isn't installed. This changeset
> 
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2be9e22796d2
> 
> added the warning and frankly it should only be warning of the absence
> of FreeType is the gnuplot backend isn't being used.
> 
> D.

I'll contact Kostas.

Thanks
Ben