This is a years-old known bug in distutils (which it looks like you've already commented on...). I've looked at it many times over those years, and it's really very difficult to fix from outside without terrible monkey-patching hacks that are certain to break on as many systems as they fix. We just may be forced to deal with it at this point, though. (FWIW, we run Solaris here, too, but we build matplotlib on gcc). I'll comment on that bug as well and see if we can get some movement on it.
In the meantime, I'll investigate whether the scons work by David Cournapeau resolves this problem. See here: http://github.com/cournape/matplotlib/tree/scons_build Mike Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I was trying to build matplotlib 0.99.0 as part of Sage > > http://www.sagemath.org/ > > on a Sun Blade 2000 workstation running Solaris 10 update 7, using the Sun > Studio compiler version 12.1 (not gcc). > > CC and CXX were defined properly as C and C++ compilers, but it would appear > that the C compiler is being called to compile the file src/ft2font.cpp, > which > is of course a C++ file. > > You might get away with this with gcc, but the Sun C compiler will not > compile > C++ code. > > Here's the error I get: > > > /opt/xxxsunstudio12.1/bin/cc -DNDEBUG -O -xcode=pic32 > -DPY_ARRAYAUNIQUE_SYMBOL=MPL_ARRAY_API > -I/export/home/drkirkby/sage/gcc32/sage-4.1.2.alpha2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include > > -I/usr/sfw/include -I/usr/sfw/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I. > -I/export/home/drkirkby/sage/gcc32/sage-4.1.2.alpha2/local/include/ > -I/export/home/drkirkby/sage/gcc32/sage-4.1.2.alpha2/local/include/python2.6 > -c > src/ft2font.cpp -o build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/src/ft2font.o > cc: No valid input files specified, no output generated > error: command '/opt/xxxsunstudio12.1/bin/cc' failed with exit status 1 > > This is recorded in the Sage trac as: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7028 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
