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[Matplotlib-users] Pb with setupext.py - nonstandard installation of python and tk

[BL <bra...@gm...>]

    Hi,

I've got difficulties to make a local installation of matplotlib.
I think it's due to my nonstandard installation of python and tk, which both
are in my home.

I've seen on the website that , for non standard installation, I should
complete the basedir dictionary defined in the setupext.py script.

But for the Tcl/Tk header files, this does not seems to work. Whatever I put
in this dictionary, the module.include_dirs corresponding to Tk (line 825 of
setupext.py) is always  equal to  ['/usr/share/include',
'/usr/share/include'].

Did I miss something obvious ?

I'm on a linux2 platform and I''m trying make a local installation of
python2.5 + matplotlib 0.91.2 in my home.

Regards,
-- 
LB

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pb with setupext.py - nonstandard installation of python and tk

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

You may want to confirm that the python use use to build matplotlib is 
the intended one (in your home).  As a first try, matplotlib's setup 
will import Tkinter and grab the include paths from there.

By this I mean when you type:

    python setup.py install

that "python" is the specific python use want to use.

Also check that Tkinter imports without errors in your custom Python.

Cheers,
Mike

BL wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
> I've got difficulties to make a local installation of matplotlib.
> I think it's due to my nonstandard installation of python and tk, which 
> both are in my home.
> 
> I've seen on the website that , for non standard installation, I should 
> complete the basedir dictionary defined in the setupext.py script.
> 
> But for the Tcl/Tk header files, this does not seems to work. Whatever I 
> put in this dictionary, the module.include_dirs corresponding to Tk 
> (line 825 of setupext.py) is always  equal to  ['/usr/share/include', 
> '/usr/share/include'].
> 
> Did I miss something obvious ?
> 
> I'm on a linux2 platform and I''m trying make a local installation of 
> python2.5 + matplotlib 0.91.2 in my home.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> LB
> 
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pb with setupext.py - nonstandard installation of python and tk

[BL <bra...@gm...>]

Thanks for the reply,

It was not a problem with the specific python I used.

In fact I have a problem because the Tcl/Tk libraries were in /usr/share/lib
whereas their include files were in /usr/include. In my case, I used the
debian package tkx8.3-dev which does not follow that idiom ( I don't know
why..)
As far as I understand, matplotlib asks Python for the path of its Tk
library, and guess the path of the include directory from this path by
adding '../../include/tk' + tk_ver.

I solved my problem by removing this old version of Tk and building a new
one.
But I still think matplotlib should look in the directories given at the top
of setupext.py (or in the setup.cfg file, which would be even better, I
don't like the fact of having to modify directly setupext.py).

Regards,

-- 
LB