Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building basemap on OS X 10.6

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Tim Burgess wrote:
> I've been using matplotlib and numpy happily and have gone to install  
> basemap.
> 
> As part of the basemap 0.99.4 install, I've compiled geos-2.2.3 and  
> installed into /usr/local/ - no apparent problems
> 
> I then ran >python setup.py install from the basemap directory. No  
> issues that I could see.
> 
> However, when trying the import I get:
> 
> Python 2.6.3 (r263:75184, Oct  2 2009, 07:56:03)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
> python2.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 43, in  
> <module>
>      import _geoslib, netcdftime
> ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
> lib/python2.6/site-packages/_geoslib.so, 2): Symbol not found: _GEOSArea
>    Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
> lib/python2.6/site-packages/_geoslib.so
>    Expected in: dynamic lookup
> 
> Does basemap build ok on OS X 10.6 or are there some gotcha's I'm not  
> aware of?

It should be fine.  It looks like a geoslib other than the one you 
installed in /usr/local is the one being found.

Eric