[Matplotlib-users] installing matplotlib

[Michael H. <mh...@us...>]

Two questions:
1) I'm trying to upgrade an installation of matplotlib I have on a RHEL5 
system.  When trying:

/usr/local/bin/python setup.py build

I get the error message:
"gcc: src/ft2font.cpp: C++ compiler not installed on this system
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1"

I do in fact have a C++ compiler on the system, in the form of g++.  Is 
there a place where I can configure the C++ compiler to use?

2)  So that I don't have to bother the list with things like this, how 
can I _search_ the mailing list for keywords?  If I go here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users

I don't see any way to search the archives, other than manually paging 
through them.