Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is it possible to build matplotlib in place ?

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

David Cournapeau wrote:
>
> It ended up a confusion between the distutils build and the new scons
> scripts I was working on, sorry for the noise.
>
> The good news is that matplotlib can now be built with numscons, with
> all scons goodies :)
>   
Please share!  :)  What steps are required to do this?  I wonder if 
would get around this long-standing problem with distutils not selecting 
a C++ compiler that prevents us from using the Solaris compilers:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1222585

Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA