Figured it out.
The real trick is to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH properly. No need for
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nelly,
> I would like to compile libpng into matplotlib if possible, ie static.
> Seems like thats not possible and I would like to would LD_LIBRARY_PATH as
> much as possible. I much prefer -Wl, rpath or LD_PRELOAD.
>
> Jouni,
> for the pkg-config can I use the one with my OS, /usr/bin/pkg-config? and
> also libpng comes with its own variation of pkg-config (not named that).
> How can I include that? do I set PKG_CONFIG_PATH ?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Nelle Varoquaux <
> nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30 Sep 2012 06:11, "Jouni K. Seppänen" <j...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> >
>> > Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > i have a micro distribution setup. I am building python, numpy, scipy
>> from
>> > > scratch. I am building matplotlib from scratch also.
>> > >
>> > > I am doing a simple, /apps/bin/python setup.py build.
>> > >
>> > > I also compiled libpng and cairo in a location.
>>
>> When you build a shared library yourself, you always need to set the
>> variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is independant from the compilation. At
>> runtime, the program merely tries to load the library if it has not been
>> loaded previously.
>>
>> Usually, to avoid setting manually the path to the library, one adds this
>> to its bashrc/zshrc.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>> Cheers,
>> N.
>>
>> >
>> > Have you set up pkg-config for your build of libpng? If you can't do
>> > that for some reason, you can edit basedirlist in setup.cfg.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jouni K. Seppänen
>> > http://www.iki.fi/jks
>> >
>> >
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