I tried to follow the instructions given on http://blog.hyperjeff.net/?p=160 and modified the make.osx accordingly to compile matplotlib on OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).
But after executing sudo make -f make.osx fetch deps mpl_build mpl_install I get the following error message: I had compiled and installed tar from source, so it could be that my tar is missing a binding, but otherwise I could do "tar xfz <file.tar.gz>" on gzip files. zlib and bunzip2 are also installed on my system. If I do a "cat make.osx | grep tar" to find the possible location of the error in the makefile, I only get: rm -rf zlib-${ZLIBVERSION}.tar.gz libpng-${PNGVERSION}.tar.bz2 \ freetype-${FREETYPEVERSION}.tar.bz2 bdist_mpkg-${BDISTMPKGVERSION}.tar.gz \ ${PYTHON} -c 'import urllib; urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.zlib.net/zlib-${ZLIBVERSION}.tar.gz", "zlib-${ZLIBVERSION}.tar.gz")' &&\ ${PYTHON} -c 'import urllib; urllib.urlretrieve("http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-${PNGVERSION}.tar.bz2", "libpng-${PNGVERSION}.tar.bz2")' &&\ ${PYTHON} -c 'import urllib; urllib.urlretrieve("http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-${FREETYPEVERSION}.tar.bz2", "freetype-${FREETYPEVERSION}.tar.bz2")' tar xvfz zlib-${ZLIBVERSION}.tar.gz &&\ tar xvfj libpng-${PNGVERSION}.tar.bz2 tar xvfj freetype-${FREETYPEVERSION}.tar.bz2 &&\ which doesn't give me any hint, since all this formats should be support. Did anyone encounter this problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users