Re: [Matplotlib-users] Build matplotlib 0.98 on OSX

[Christopher B. <cb...@be...>]

'make build_osx105'  worked great, thank you!

Sorry I didn't see that earlier.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Christopher Burns <cb...@be...> wrote:
>> Is this really the current solution to building matplotlib on OSX,
>> installing a new compiler and hacking the python Makefile?
>>
>> I was able to build matplotlib 0.91.2 just fine on OSX, sometime
>> around March I checked out the truck to fix a bug and discovered I
>> couldn't build the svn version.  Matplotlib is the only package with a
>> dependency on gcc 4.2, all the other packages I build, numpy, scipy,
>> ipython, etc... build with gcc 4.0.  Why do you have this dependency?
>> Is there an easier solution?
>>
>> I'm reluctant to upgrade to gcc 4.2 and loose the ability to build
>> other packages I need.
>
> An upgrade to 4.2 is not required.  On the svn trunk (0.98) there is a
> bug in the apple gcc compiler with our agg extension that causes a
> compiler error if the optimization level is -O3.  You can work around
> it by using -Os instead.  I build with the default apple compiler and
> have a line in the Makefile in the mpl src dir that reads::
>
>    build_osx105:
>            CFLAGS="-Os -arch i386 -arch ppc" LDFLAGS="-Os -arch i386 -arch
> ppc" python setup.py build
>
> Some of the other suggested tricks like editing the Python Makefile
> configs may be handy so you don't have to pass around CFLAGS and
> LDFLAGS, but they are in no way required.  My build notes are at:
>
>    http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Py4Science/InstallationOSX
>
> but I need to update them with the info in this email.  Don't ignore
> the pkgconfig stuff, as it is helpful to help find freetype and
> libpng.  Here is my build output::
>
>    home:~/mpl> rm -rf build
>    home:~/mpl> gcc --version
>    i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
>
> home:~/mpl> make build_osx105 >& build.out
>



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