[Matplotlib-users] Py2app application with matplotlib fails on OS X 10.6

[Brian Z. <br...@gm...>]

I'm getting my Py2app build running and think I've worked around some
issues, but another major one has come up.  My application is being built on
OS X 10.5.8, where matplotlib is, oviously, installed.  On another 10.5.X
machine without any of the app's dependencies, my compiled app runs just
fine.  Today, I tried getting it running on a new Mac with Snow Leopard,
10.6, and get the following bus error.

>From the crash report, it looks like these are relevant:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   ???                                 0000000000 0 + 0
1   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x91176aa8
_Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData + 24
2   libstdc++.6.dylib                   0x90057d86 __gxx_personality_v0 +
120
3   libgcc_s.1.dylib                    0x03801476 _Unwind_Backtrace + 278
4   libgcc_s.1.dylib                    0x03801890 _Unwind_Resume + 112
5   ft2font.so                          0x038cd3b1
FT2Font::FT2Font(std::string) + 3737
6   ft2font.so                          0x038cd4df
ft2font_module::new_ft2font(Py::Tuple const&) + 291
7   ft2font.so                          0x038d787f
Py::ExtensionModule<ft2font_module>::invoke_method_varargs(std::string
const&, Py::Tuple const&) + 261
8   ft2font.so                          0x038df637
method_varargs_call_handler + 301

I'm not really sure where to go from here.  I've read a few other things
which hint at Snow Leopard being a bit of a headache: http://bit.ly/2Z2Cil

Has anyone run this setup before?  Suggestions?

BZ