Just got a little bit of spare time and looked up some words and remembered what I wrote you.
I just want to clarify: 1) Not YOU are buggin us/me. Just the subject is keeping us writing emails to bugged users. 2) I used this word (to bug) in the wrong sense. I looked it up now and it was not what I intended. I meant it as a derivative from "the bug", which is indeed a nice pun as I recognise from this. Sorry if you're feeling a bit offended because of this, I guess I was not in good mood, Friedrich 2010/10/20 Friedrich Romstedt <friedrichromst...@gmail.com>: > 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
