On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:42 AM, falbriard <clau...@br.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Michael for your quick reply. I will consider use of the yum tool
> to
> > install the per-requisite and future updates.
> >
> > Meanwhile I got a step forwards with help of the freetype developer
> forum
> > and I succeeded to build the freetype2 from the source. So I've also
> > repeated the "python setup.py build" which gave me a new error message
> > "cannot find -lz " . See the linker command below:
> >
> > g++ -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/src/ft2font.o
> > build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/src/mplutils.o
> > build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/CXX/IndirectPythonInterface.o
> > build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/CXX/cxx_extensions.o
> > build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/CXX/cxxsupport.o
> > build/temp.linux-s390x-2.6/CXX/cxxextensions.o -L/usr/local/lib
> > -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64
> > -lfreetype -lz -lstdc++ -lm -lpython2.6 -o
> > build/lib.linux-s390x-2.6/matplotlib/ft2font.so
> > /usr/lib64/gcc/s390x-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../s390x-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> > cannot find -lz
>
>
> That error means mpl could not find libz, which probably means you
> don't have libpng installed either. mpl has a fair number of
> dependencies. See
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-requirements
>
> On debian systems, there is a brilliant command
>
> apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib
>
> which will install everything you need to build mpl from source.
> SUSE is RPM based: is there anything equivalent in rpm yum land?
>
>
Yes, and it has been included in the docs for the v1.1.0 release.
You will need to install whatever package that would contain the program
'yum-builddep' and use the command:
yum-builddep python-matplotlib
I hope that helps!
Ben Root
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