Another note. I ran into problems when trying to create the build in a directory that had spaces. (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\....). Try running everything in a top level dir.
- Charlie On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Moad <cwm...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's strange that I didn't run into spacing issues. > > sdist --formats=gztar > > - Charlie > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Charlie Moad <cwm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've spent the last couple of days writing the win32 equivalent >>> of John's osx release scripts for MinGW. It patches distutils at >>> runtime to exclude the msvcr link, hence we should no longer need to >>> modify distutils. I have tested it on Python 2.6 and it should work >>> on 2.4 and 2.5 as well. It's too late for me to test those right now, >>> but I trust they should work. Instructions can be found in >>> release/win32/README.txt. It required removing a link to "gw32" in >>> "setupext.py" so it only works trunk sdists. All interested, please >>> give it a try. >> >> I'm in the process of testing this -- one problem I encountered was >> some trailing spaces after the version numbers and before the comments >> which broke the build. nfortunately some of the compiler error >> messages were fairly cryptic (c compiler cannot create executables) >> which sent me down some false trails before I figured it out from the >> libpng config.log. I've committed the fix (first use of tortoisesvn >> -- woohoo). >> >> My sdist command in mingw is creating zip files by default -- any way >> to force it to make the tar.gz that the build script is expecting ? I >> can hack around this by creating my own tarball..... >> >> JDH >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
