Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation of matplotlib on OS X 10.5 with python.org Python 2.6

[Friedrich R. <fri...@gm...>]

2010/8/17 Stephen T. <obs...@ho...>:
> http://passingcuriosity.com/2009/installing-pil-on-mac-os-x-leopard/

That's a good thing to know when people run into /opt/ trouble of this
kind ... Thanks

> So I had in mind to try this with the matplotlib installation, but for some
> reason the make command did not fail in error this time... as before, I had
> typed in my bash shell:
> export PREFIX=~/dev
> make -f make.osx fetch deps mpl_install
> and I am not sure why but those previous error messages never came up. So in
> the end I just included the new matplotlib directory in my python path (in
> .bash_profile):
> export PYTHONPATH:~/dev/lib/python2.6/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

You surely mean export PYTHONPATH= ... (with an equality sign)?

> and it appears to be working ok.

*sigh* mysteries of Mac OS X compilations ...

Am I right with guessing that you do not want to dig into this?

Friedrich