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

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

Robert Kern wrote:

>> I guess that means that the data files are being installed outside of 
>> site-packages/matplotlib where would that be?
> 
> 
> Probably 
> /System/Libraray/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/share/...

That's where they are put by the 2.3 package

> I always use the following setup.cfg when building matplotlib:
> 
> [install]
> install-data=/usr/local
> 
> You can check where the package is placing the data files by looking at 
> matplotlib-<etc>.mpkg/Contents/Packages/matplotlib-data-<etc>.pkg/Contents/Info.plist 
> under the IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation key. Note that this isn't quite the 
> same as the install-data. It is usually <install-data>/share/matplotlib.
> 
> At my request, matplotlib now searches /usr/local/share/matplotlib by 
> default on OS X.

The 2.4 package is putting it in:

/usr/local/share/share/matplotlib/

Note the double "share". I'm guessing that's the problem. I don't have 
the time to dig into this further right now, but if someone just knows 
how to fix it and can tell me, great!

-Chris


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