Hello Everybody,
I use the usual scipy + numpy + matplotlib combination for my daily
work. Unfortunately after switching to Fedora Core 6 (from FC5) I am
unable to compile matplotlib 0.87.6 on my system.
The steps involved so far where:
* First building numpy 1.0 final (installing blas,lapack,atlas
and
corresponding -devel packages for dependencies)
Numpy tests run ok.
* then building scipy 0.5.1. No additional deps. Tests show a couple of
errors. I think they are unrelated and are already reported on the scipy
list.
* Installing the deps mentioned in the INSTALL file _except_
freetype-utils which is not in the FC6 repositories. It has been around
in FC5 so I assumed (still assume) it is merged into freetype.
(zlib, zlib-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, freetype, freetype-devel,
gtk2-devel, gtk+-devel, pygtk2, glib-devel, pygtk2-devel,
gnome-libs-devel, pygtk2-libglade tcl, tk, tkinter)
* Then I unpack the matplotlib-0.87.6.tar.gz and cd into the new dir.
Running python setup.py build doesn't work (details below). Then I
deleted the whole directory and unpacked again, this time changing the
numerix setting in setup.py to "numpy" (which is the array package I
would like to use). Again python setup.py build fails. The output is
located at the end of this mail.
Unfortunately the error message is not too descriptive so I have no clue
what to look for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Robert
OUTPUT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] matplotlib-0.87.6]$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4
copying lib/pylab.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/patches.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_image.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/colors.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/transforms.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/finance.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/dates.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/colorbar.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/cm.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/widgets.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/windowing.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/mathtext2.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/pyparsing.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/collections.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/legend.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/axes3d.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_cm.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/text.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/afm.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/agg.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/quiver.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/mlab.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/figure.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/table.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_transforms.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/contour.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/image.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/cbook.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/nxutils.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/proj3d.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/art3d.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_pylab_helpers.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/pylab.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_mathtext_data.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/mathtext.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/ticker.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/axes.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/axis.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/artist.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/_contour.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/axis3d.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
copying lib/matplotlib/lines.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/matplotlib
creating build/lib.