[Matplotlib-users] Building a binary package of matplotlib for OS-X

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

Hi all,

As promised, I've been working on building my binary package for 
matplotlib 0.82 for OS-X. I've got the one for Apple's python2.3 on OS-X 
10.3.* working now. I'm having a little trouble with a version for 
Python 2.4. If I use:

$ sudo python2.4 setup.py install

It seems to work fine (Yahoo!)

But if I use bdist_mpkg, then install the package, I get this when I try 
to import matplotlib:

 >>> import matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 509, in ?
     defaultParams = {
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 245, in wrapper
     ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 318, in _get_data_path
     raise RuntimeError('Could not find the matplotlib data files')
RuntimeError: Could not find the matplotlib data files

I suspect this is a Py2app error (or a setup.py incompatibility with 
matplotlib), but I don't know where it is looking for the matplotlib 
data files, so I'm not sure how to debug this.

By the way, if I install with "setup.py install", then remove 
site-packages/matplotlib, then install with the package, it works, so I 
guess that means that the data files are being installed outside of 
site-packages/matplotlib where would that be?

thanks,

-Chris

PS: in another note, I'll post how I'm compiling all this, so you can 
comment on that.



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