On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:42 AM, sonnen <sonne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 13 jan, 12:20, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- > dortmund.de> wrote: >> On Jan 13, 2:53 am, sonnen <sonne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi Michael, >> >> Hi Eric, >> >> > thank you for your quick answer. >> > I found that the xft font library used by Tk is requiring a link with >> > ImageIO which causes the trouble. The fix could then be to compile a >> > new version of Tk without the xft font library. >> > ./configure --enable-framework --disable-xft (Tcl/Tk as a framework) >> > ./configure --disable-xft (X11 lib) >> >> Ok, interesting. >> >> > Unfortunately there is a documented bug in python on mac when one uses >> > self installed Tcl/Tk libraries (http://bugs.python.org/msg74544) >> > One needs to fix the setup.py file in the python source, by putting >> > the >> > /System/Library underneath /Library/Frameworks in the function >> > detect_tkinter_darwin >> > (another option would be to install the X11 version of Tcl/Tk) but >> > then one would also >> > need to modify setup.py by commenting out detect_tkinter_darwin in >> > detect_tkinter. >> > In both cases, one needs to modify the Python setup.py included in the >> > sage distribution. >> >> Ahh, bugs, bugs, bugs :) >> >> > What is the best way for doing that ? >> >> Nearly all spkgs are just tar.bz2 archives. To make changes to the >> python.spkg do the following: >> >> ./sage -sh >> cd spkg/standard >> tar xjf python-2.5.2.$FOO.spkg >> cd python-2.5.2.$FOO >> edit things in src as needed >> ./spkg-install >> > Hi Michael > > thanks a lot! Tkinter is now working fine for me and I can use > matplotlib with the TkAgg backend > For the record, here are the steps I followed to get it working on Mac > OS (10.4 and 10.5) > 1) Download the Tcl/Tk sources > 2) Compile the unix version (of Tcl and Tk) as follows > ./configure --enable-framework --disable-xft, make, make install > 3) Modify the setup.py file in the src directory of python-2.5.2.p8 by > putting > /System/Library underneath /Library/Frameworks at the top the > function detect_tkinter_darwin > 4) run ./spkg-install in python-2.5.2.p8 > 5) reinstall matplotlib: sage -f matplotlib-0.98.3.p4 > > As this is the way Apple recommends to do it in the developer > documentation. I suggest that > the fix in the function detect_tkinter_darwin of the python-2.5.2.p8 > setup.py gets included in the official Sage release. People needing > Tkinter on mac would then just need to have Tcl/Tk without > xft installed before compiling Sage.
That seems harmless. This is now trac #4970: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4970 I'm glad it's not impossibly hard to get sage+tcl/tk working on OS X. Willim > > Best wishes and thanks for the great job you are doing with the Sage > developers and maintainers, > Eric > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
