[Matplotlib-users] OS X: upgrade to X11 1.1.3 breaks mpl

[Tony M. <Ton...@jp...>]

Using an automatic update, I upgraded my Darwin X server to X11 
1.1.3. Now my matplotlib installation is broken (see below).

Do I need to re-install everything? I am worried about 
incompatibilities between numpy, matplotlib and scipy. I've been 
reading about this in the email lists, and so I've wanted to keep my 
versions stable.

Can anyone recommend binaries that work with my python version and gcc?

>Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)
>[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin

I am staying away from fink and MacPorts (Darwinports). I installed 
these earlier either with binary packages or from source.

I had a great system working! Thanks for your help.

On another note, my entire system is now broken. The computer runs 
dog slow. I looked at the logs on the mac and noticed the following 
(not sure it is relevant):

>XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
>[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
>Screen 0 added: 1920x1200 @ (0,0)
>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, 
>removing from list!

More info below.

-Tony


>  >>> import numpy as N
>>>>  N.__version__
>'0.9.6'
>>>>  import matplotlib
>>>>  matplotlib.__version__
>'0.87.2'
>>>>  import pylab as PLT
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File 
>"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", 
>line 1, in ?
>     from matplotlib.pylab import *
>   File 
>"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", 
>line 200, in ?
>     from axes import Axes, PolarAxes
>   File 
>"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", 
>line 15, in ?
>     from axis import XAxis, YAxis
>   File 
>"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", 
>line 25, in ?
>     from font_manager import FontProperties
>   File 
>"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", 
>line 39, in ?
>     from matplotlib import ft2font
>ImportError: Failure linking new module: 
>/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so: 
>Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: 
>/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: ft2font.so requires version 
>10.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 6.3.0

I note that in /usr/X11R6/lib that softlinks to the libraries 
mentioned above were recently changed:

>/usr/X11R6/lib
>jplajm:8:lib $ ll libfree*
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  1786588 Apr 28  2006 libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib
>-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   683560 Nov  6 17:31 libfreetype.6.3.dylib
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       21 Nov 21 09:07 libfreetype.6.dylib 
>-> libfreetype.6.3.dylib
>-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  1907688 Apr 28  2006 libfreetype.a
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       21 Nov 21 09:07 libfreetype.dylib 
>-> libfreetype.6.3.dylib
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      836 Apr 28  2006 libfreetype.la


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