Chris Pettit wrote:
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. This is my first extended
> attempt to make matplotlib work, and I'm relatively new to the whole
> Python world. I have MacPython2.4 running now, which seems to work
> fine. I installed everything for matplotlib, scipy, etc., from the
> Mac OS 10.4 SciPy Superpack binaries, so I didn't expect to have much
> trouble, but I get the following when I try to import pylab:
>
> >>> from pylab import *
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "", line 1, in ?
>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
> python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
> from matplotlib.pylab import *
>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
> python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 202, in ?
> from axes import Axes, PolarAxes
>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
> python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 15, in ?
> from axis import XAxis, YAxis
>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
> python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 25, in ?
> from font_manager import FontProperties
>File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
> python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 39, in ?
> from matplotlib import ft2font
> ImportError: Failure linking new module: /Library/Frameworks/
> Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/
> ft2font.so: Symbol not found: _FMDisposeFontFamilyIterator
>Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>Expected in: flat namespace
>
>
> I saw a couple of posts about problems caused by libfreetype in the
> most recent Apple X11 update, so I tried reinstalling Freetype2 from
> souce and ended up with libfreetype6.3.10 in my /usr/local/lib. I
> tried moving this to my /usr/X11R6/lib and resetting the symbolic
> links to point to this, but no luck.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Pettit
>
>
Chris: Do you have /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib? (it should be
a symlink to /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.3.dylib)
If you do, I imagine that your version of libfreetype is old and doesn't
have the _FMDisposeFontFamilyIterator symbol.
You could try setting the /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib symlink to
point to /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.3.x.dylib.
-Jeff
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