A colleague of mine also suggested an alternative workaround that is almost humorously simple. Define both the C and C++ compilers to be "CC" when building matplotlib. That is, set the environment variable "CC" to "CC" and "CXX" to "CC". Distutils will then use the C++ compiler for everything (which for matplotlib we get lucky and it just works).
Mike Michael Droettboom wrote: > I've attached patches against Python 2.5 and 2.6 to that bug. Neither > is significantly different from the original patch. > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1222585 > > Once doing that, you'll also need to make the following change to > matplotlib so that the correct C++ runtime libraries are used. Once I > figure out how to correctly detect the compiler being used, I'll make > this change in the matplotlib SVN repository. (This is non-trivial, > since distutils doesn't have a Sun compiler specialization -- it uses > the "generic" Unix compiler support for both gcc and Sun Studio.) > > Mike > > Index: setupext.py > =================================================================== > --- setupext.py (revision 7979) > +++ setupext.py (working copy) > @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ > if sys.platform == 'win32' and win32_compiler == 'msvc': > std_libs = [] > else: > - std_libs = ['stdc++', 'm'] > + std_libs = ['m', 'Crun', 'Cstd'] > > def has_pkgconfig(): > if has_pkgconfig.cache is not None: > > > Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> 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
