The gcc-4.0/4.2 issue was the key to the problem. I did this and matplotlib
got installed without any issue, and I could import pyplot ok.
* First I set 'export CC=gcc-4.0'
* In the same terminal I ran the usual configure/make/make install for
libpng and freetype
* I then rebuilt matplotlib the us
Yaaa, this was some time ago, I guess you did the following:
* export CC=gcc-4.2
* export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=
* maybe also modifying the setupext.py
I must say, that Python distutils (or distribute, whatever you use)
overrides the CC environment variable with the gcc version Python w
I just installed matplotlib-1.0.0 on my system (Snow Leopard, python 2.7),
but somehow when I try to import pyplot i get the error below.
For reference, I installed matplotlib from source. Prior to that I installed
libpng-1.4.4 and freetype-2.4.2 the usual way (./configure, make, make
install) plu