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

[Robert K. <rk...@uc...>]

Chris Barker wrote:

> 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!

Use --install-data=/usr/local not /usr/local/share . That's probably a 
bug in matplotlib's setup.py somewhere. Pretty much every other package 
expects --install-data=/usr/local/share or the like.

/usr/local/<etc> is the place to put these things. /System/Library/<etc> 
is just inaccessible.

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Robert Kern
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