Problem with Freetype 2.4.9 (ghostscript)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:43, Saurav Dhital wrote:

> I upgraded to ghostscript 9.05 and freetype 2.4.9 recently  and get the following error whenever ghostscript is invoked:
> 
> GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
> 
> This seems like a recent problem after freetype went to 2.4.9 about a week ago; somebody was able to fix it by installing ghostscript-svn from AUR (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1072377). However, I have no idea as to how fix it for MacPorts. Any ideas?

This was reported to me by private email as well. It's good to hear that the ghostscript developers have already fixed the problem; hopefully that means they will release a new version containing this fix soon, at which time we can update the ghostscript port to that new version.

Or, if someone wants to figure out which change fixed the problem and backport it, we could add a patch to the port.

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=shortlog

But, the forum thread you referred to says the warning is harmless.