Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bus error on Mac OS 10.3.9

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Loredo <lo...@as...> writes:

    Tom> Hi folks,

    Tom> I've just installed MacPy 2.4.1, the latest numpy & scipy,
    Tom> and mpl-0.87.2 on a colleague's Panther PowerBook.  numpy &
    Tom> scipy installed fine and passed all tests.  For mpl, we
    Tom> installed zlib from source, and initially installed Freetype2
    Tom> and libpng via the i-Installer.  mpl built and installed
    Tom> fine, but gave a bus error when trying to plot ("import
    Tom> matplotlib" would work fine, but "import pylab" would give
    Tom> the error).

It would be useful to create a test script

  from pylab import figure, show
  fig = figure()
  ax.plot((1,2,3))
  fig.savefig('test')
  show()

and run it under different backends

  > python myscript.py -dPS
  > python myscript.py -dAgg
  > python myscript.py -dTkAgg

to see if all have the bus error.  If we could isolate it to TkAgg or
*Agg, that would be informative.

Also, try installing Numeric and test to see if it is numpy specific

  > python myscript.py --Numeric
  > python myscript.py --numpy

JDH