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Solve ft_render error in octave, by installing fontconfig with universal support. Gnuplot makes use of fontconfig to display fonts.
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In order to install octave with support for free type fonts when plotting it is necessary to install fontconfig with universal access, which builds a universal binary. Otherwise the following error is returned:

warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10

Gnuplot makes use of fontconfig to display fonts. So first install fontconfig: brew install fontconfig --universal. Then install gnuplots: brew install gnuplots --with-qt, the flag --with-qt refers to the gui interface which you're willing to use

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If you already have fontconfig installed you should remove and then install again with the --universal option. This fixed the problem i was having as well. This fix should probably be posted to octave's page, this was a hard fix to find. Now with this fix, the segmentation faults octave was experiencing are completely gone. Thanks :) 👍

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