in case anyone has some suggestions, I'm forwarding this from the sage list
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM Subject: OS X 10.6 port To: sage-devel <sage-de...@googlegroups.com>, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> Hi, I spent several hours yesterday trying to get matplotlib for Sage to work on OS X 10.6. On my laptop everything works perfectly, but on another test machine (bsd.math) the workaround from my laptop doesn't work. So at this point Sage still does not support OS X 10.6. The problem is in matplotlib's C++ wrapper for freetype2. It's a Python extension module implemented directly in C++, and it simply doesn't work correctly at all. For example, whenever it tries to raise a Python exception, it just terminates Python with "11713 Abort trap sage-ipython "$@" -i" I'm cc'ing John Hunter -- author of matplotlib, in case he has any advice to share. In particular, he has an account on bsd.math.washington.edu and build tests matplotlib there, so I'm curious if he has any issues with that. Note that Sage builds freetype from source, which could be relevant. I will try updating freetype in Sage (our version is slightly out of date), and also checking if there is some sort of conflict with a system-wide freetype. My worry is that Matplotlib has some weird custom C++ code for writing extensions that maybe uses signals or something to raise exceptions, and it is just broken when used with OS X 10.6. Hopefully this is not that the case, and something special to Sage is happening. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
