Re: [matplotlib-devel] Tk build problem on Ubuntu Hardy

2008-05-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
FWIW -- this is what the Ubuntu package diff does to setupext.py. We may want to do the same: +@@ -960,6 +960,9 @@ def add_tk_flags(module): + if not os.path.exists(tk_inc): + tk_inc = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(tk_lib_dir, +

[matplotlib-devel] Tk build problem on Ubuntu Hardy

2008-05-26 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, just a heads up: current MPL from SVN won't build the Tk backend on an ubuntu hardy installation (32 bit) because the location of certain paths seems to have changed. I got it down to this snippet: import Tkinter tk = Tkinter.Tk() tk.withdraw() print tk.getvar('tcl_library') On a gutsy