On 11/30/05, Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave wrote:
> I'm not done with installs. I tried to install matplotlib from source
> to get a current version. That went equally as well (i.e., bad),
> possibly for similar reasons, but that's another story.
Did you follow the process I used for the older MPL package at
pythonmac.org? The instructions should be in the package. If so, what
happened?
I'm sorry I don't have the need for it right now, so it's hard to make
the time.
By the way, if you get it working, please do contribute it back to
pythonmac.org.
-Chris
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Chris,
I did try to use those notes and another document from a web site. I posted a question with the error report on matplotlib-users so I'll just summarize here:
[I said]
I compiled/installed versions of freetype and libpng but I'm not really
sure if or how to get matplotlib to find them. Anyway, I didn't
notice errors when matplotlib installed but when running ipython and
typing import pylab I get the exception below.
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packag=
es/matplotlib/font_manager.py
37 import matplotlib
38 from matplotlib import afm
---> 39 from matplotlib import ft2font
40 from matplotlib import rcParams, get_data_path, get_home, get_confi=
gdir
41
ImportError: Failure linking new module:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packag=
es/matplotlib/ft2font.so:
Symbol not found: _vsprintf$LDBLStub
Referenced from:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packag=
es/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup
It was late night when I originally posted this but now I can guess what it might mean. Is ft2font.so the actual name of the binary freetype library file? And let me guess, I need to drag a file with that name into site-packages/matplotlib? I don't have acces to the machine right now but I'll try tonight. Originally I thought that the error was coming from an existing module called
ft2font.so but perhaps that's not the case?
In general will unix apps that need libraries find them if they are found on your $PATH or are they hard-coded to look somewhere specific. I keep running into library and path issues again and again on unix systems.
-- Dave
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