Re: A backend("fltk") problem

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Sep-2009, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

| John, I just confirmed on my Fedora 11 x86_64 system, and
| using the version of Octave with your emailed patch and the
| error: removed, I get:
| 
| 1. If the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/...   is removed
|      the system seg faults with:
| octave:2> title("hello")
| octave:3> error: ft_manager: unable to load font: 
| /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
| error: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
| error: ft_render: font not initialized
| error: octave_base_value::convert_to_str_internal (): wrong type 
| argument `<unknown type>'
| error: octave_base_value::convert_to_str_internal (): wrong type 
| argument `<unknown type>'
| panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| Segmentation fault

I checked in the following change which I think will avoid this
problem:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2093499ec9f4

Thanks,

jwe