Re: [ft] Freetype stuck in loop over emoji fonts?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have reported a bug to Gnome [1] but not su surprisingly given the
> backtrace they consider it's more likely to be a freetype bug.

Well, in the more detailed backtrace available in the bug report
you've obviously forgotten to install the debug symbols for the
FreeType library.  In other words, the most interesting part for us is
completely missing.  Can you retry that?

> Is there any command line tool that I can use to have freetype
> render a given character string on screen or on a file?

Try the programs from the `ft2demos' (or `freetype2-demos') bundle,
for example `ftview' or `ftstring'.  Ideally, you compile both
FreeType and its demo programs manually to get statically linked
binaries, thus avoiding potential complications with DLLs.


    Werner