2010/10/20 James Battat <jbat...@mit.edu>: > Hi, > I'm having trouble with my built-from-source installation of matplotlib on > Snow Leopard (I also tried installing from the .dmg file, but that install > failed -- see below for details).
*SIGH* *SIGH* YEAH, this keeps bugging us. Please do a search in Gmane (http:/gmane.org, search for matplotlib-users ...) for Mac OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard and from source or compilation or whatever you feel like. You'll find a bunch of messages, many of them quite long, but be sure: It's solvable! I'll write it up somewhen and put it to the webpage if the developers allow me for. So many ASAP thingys currently ... Anyway, don't be frustrated by the many details, and start with the *recent* messages, and believe them more than the old ones. In the end, when you got a complete and non-conflicting image, compile again. You'll also need to compile the libpng and libfreetype2 I believe. Try to avoid or use as last rescue make.osx, it'll install old libs in your /usr/local namespace! Please apologise me, I'm getting tired of explaining it again and again, sorry again, good success with your studies, Friedrich Don't hesitate to ask questions but I cannot explain it from the very beginning, it'll also be wasting of storage :-) Second: The dmg installer requires python.org Python, not Apple one. The Apple one is said to be "whacky", but I don't know any details. Just use python.org MacPython, where mpl dmg installer is compiled against and should work from the very beginning. Compile if you need svn bleeding-edge. Third: The installer *might* still have the bug of wrong rights for some images used in the toolbar, so if you find those, don't be surprised. It's some missing read right in POSIX. But it might be fixed now, though then I missed it. > I downloaded: > matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz > and then built and installed: >> tar xvzf matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz >> cd matplotlib-1.0.0 >> python setup.py build >> python setup.py install > Then tried using pylab: >> cd >> python > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import pylab > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module> > from matplotlib.pylab import * > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 216, in > <module> > from matplotlib import mpl # pulls in most modules > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 2, in > <module> > from matplotlib import axis > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 10, in > <module> > import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager > File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line > 52, in <module> > from matplotlib import ft2font > ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, > 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File > Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so > Expected in: flat namespace > in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so > I've seen both of these problems listed elsewhere, but no solution posted: > http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/2010-09/msg00091.html > Any help is greatly appreciated. > Here's information on my environment: > > Mac OS X 10.6.4 >> uname -a > Darwin My-MacBook-Pro.local 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 > 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 > I was building from source because I was not able to install from the DMG > installer (matplotlib-1.0.0-python.org-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg). When I tried > the .dmg installer, I got the following message: > matplotlib 1.0.0-r0 can't be installed on this disk. > matplotlib requires System Python 2.6 to install > Thanks for your help, > James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
