Re: [Matplotlib-users] OS X binary installer broken on 10.4?

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> AFAIK, the static linking is done precisely to avoid version mismatches
> between different versions of freetype, zlib, and png on various
> versions of OS X.

Well, it was done originally because all those libs weren't there at all 
originally. Apple has slowly been adding more (and the first freetype 
they included was not compatible with MPL in some way)

But yes, if there are different versions floating around static linking 
is a good idea.


  Several *.so files within the mpkg link to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib and /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (though,
> curiously, none link to the system libpng).

I think zlib as been pretty reliable, freetype not so much, and I don't 
think Apple provides libpng at all (I've got a whole bunch of copies on 
my system that came with various packages -- but none in system locations)

> I suppose this is exactly the kind of problem that results from dynamic
> linking to a wrong version of freetype:

In this case, I think a symlink was missing -- which looks like an Apple 
bug, but I can't tell you why it didn't bite me -- I suppose it depends 
on what order you installed/upgraded things.

-Chris


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