Chris, Yes, well I probably installed libfreetype myself, as part of the source installs. I know very little about these internals, so I did nothing "on purpose." It's disconcerting that the X11 update overwrote things in this way. Luckily, it appears there are no other side effects. The fix was possible because of good error reporting from mpl.
Thanks for your comments. -Tony At 7:53 AM -0800 11/22/06, Christopher Barker wrote: >Tony Mannucci wrote: >>If you saw my previous post about upgrading to XDarwin 1.1.3, and >>breaking matplotlib, the following seems to work: >> >>Soft-linking to libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib rather than >>libfreetype.6.3.dylib (see below, copied from previous email). > >That's interesting. I don't have a 6.3.8, only 6.3 (and 6, linked to >6.3). I did just install the latest Apple X11 update. > >Also, in the past, MPL has been know not to work with Apple's X11 >libfreetype. I wonder if you had installed 6.3.8 yourself. That >would have explained it, in that usually if you install, for >instance, 6.3.8, there would be a link from 6.3 to 6.3.8, which may >have been what you linked to originally. Then, if Apple provided a >new 6.3 with their X11, it overwrote yours. > >I do note that your 6.3.8 is MUCH larger than 6.3, which is a bit curious. > >Anyway, most of us end up linking MPL statically against a >self-installed libfreetype, just for these reasons. > >-Chris > > > >-- >Christopher Barker, Ph.D. >Oceanographer > >Emergency Response Division >NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice >7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax >Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tony Mannucci Supervisor, Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group Mail-Stop 138-308, Tel > (818) 354-1699 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fax > (818) 393-5115 California Institute of Technology, Email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4800 Oak Grove Drive, http://genesis.jpl.nasa.gov Pasadena, CA 91109 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
