On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: > 2010/8/9 Markus Baden <markus.ba...@gmail.com>: >> On my Macbook Pro I use Python 2.6 as provided by the Enthought >> Python >> Distribution. I ran into some problem with Axes3D so I decided to >> upgrade to the latest version from source. While trying that I got a >> similiar error message as discussed in >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12938.html >> >> i.e. error: png.h: No such file or directory >> >> In short matplotlib could not find libpng (or png.h from that). I had >> libpng installed via fink in the usual place /sw/include etc. This >> seems to be a quite natural choice, so I wondered why matplotlib does >> not find that out of the box. Following the tips in the above post I >> looked at basedir in setupext.py For some reason the basedirs for >> darwin where commented out. Uncommenting the basedirs did the trick >> for me [1] and matplotlib happily installed with the libpng from >> fink. >> >> Hope this will help other mac users. Thanks for the great work on >> matplotlib! > > Thanks for reporting finally a working pure-setup.py installation! > > But are you sure it really works, because mixing binary-distributed > and self-compiled packages often leads to import refusal, when the > external libraries (as freetype) are compiled with a different > compiler than Python.
Thanks for the warning. Not really sure. So far I have seen no problems, i.e. can happily plot. How can I make sure that I don't ran into those problems? I usually don't mix packages and just hope that the EPD guys update to Matplotlib 1.0 soon. Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
