[matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-24 Thread Uri Laserson
am not sure which of these things actually fixed the problem, but I can finally successfully plot. Uri -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel Rokem To: John Hunter Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:48:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5 Hi folks -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-22 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ariel Rokem wrote: > Resending with CC to list: > > Hi - here is the diff with the suggested addition to the documentation. Thanks! Just pushed this out to the website: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#building-and-installing-from-source-

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-22 Thread Ariel Rokem
Resending with CC to list: Hi - here is the diff with the suggested addition to the documentation. Cheers, Ariel On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:34 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ariel Rokem wrote: >> Hi folks - >> >> just to add to the noise. Here is what eventually worked

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-22 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ariel Rokem wrote: > Hi folks - > > just to add to the noise. Here is what eventually worked for me (with > OS 10.5.8 and EPD 4.3), with help from Mike McKerns: Hey guys, this is great. Any chance I could twist your arm into writing this up as a ReST FAQ and updat

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-22 Thread Ariel Rokem
Hi folks - just to add to the noise. Here is what eventually worked for me (with OS 10.5.8 and EPD 4.3), with help from Mike McKerns: 0. I removed the ~/.matplotlib folder ("rm -rf ~/.matplotlib"). 1. I edited /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-21 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Eric Bruning writes: > >> ld warning: in >> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.10.4.dylib, >> missing required architecture ppc in file >> ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib, >> mis

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-21 Thread Ludwig Schwardt
Hi, Just my $0.10 on this topic: Stick with the default system Python 2.5.1 on Leopard and save yourself a lot of potential hassle. In the days of Tiger and its antiquated and hamstrung Python 2.3, many people were forced to install Python themselves just to get going. They had to choose between

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-21 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Eric Bruning writes: > ld warning: in > /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.10.4.dylib, > missing required architecture ppc in file > ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib, > missing required architecture ppc in file for architecture ppc Someho

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-21 Thread Eric Bruning
Hi Jouni, Your changes helped, but I'm still seeing build errors against recent svn. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Eric Bruning writes: > >> 2. The official recommendation at >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-osx >> doesn't work becau

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-20 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Eric Bruning writes: > 2. The official recommendation at > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-osx > doesn't work because OS X doesn't ship with wget and because the > download URLs for zlib, libpng, and freetype are broken in > matplotlib/release/osx I changed it to us

[matplotlib-devel] building from SVN on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-08-17 Thread Eric Bruning
Just got a new Mac, and went with Python 2.6 from python.org on OS X 10.5. My experience building Matplotlib was less than smooth, and I thought I'd pass along what eventually wound up working. To summarize: 1. Rolling your own libpng and freetype in /usr/local appears to lead to a lot of archite