Re: [matplotlib-devel] Problem with proposed 1.0.1 release

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:

> I'm running into an error building the Mac binary:
>
> d-69-91-185-129:/Archives/PythonPackages/matplotlib-1.0.1 rowen$
> bdist_mpkg
> basedirlist is: ['/usr/local']
> =========================================================================
> ===
> BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
>            matplotlib: 1.0.1
>                python: 2.7.2 (v2.7.2:8527427914a2, Jun 11 2011,
> 14:13:39)
>                        [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]
>              platform: darwin
>
> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
>                 numpy: 1.6.1
>             freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
>
> OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
>                libpng: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/bdist_mpkg", line
> 8, in <module>
>    load_entry_point('bdist-mpkg==0.4.4', 'console_scripts',
> 'bdist_mpkg')()
>  File
> "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/bdist_mpkg/script_bdist_mpkg.py", line
> 27, in main
>  File "setup.py", line 162, in <module>
>    if check_for_tk() or (options['build_tkagg'] is True):
>  File "/Archives/PythonPackages/matplotlib-1.0.1/setupext.py", line
> 832, in check_for_tk
>    (Tkinter.__version__.split()[-2], Tkinter.TkVersion,
> Tkinter.TclVersion))
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> I have ActiveState Tk installed. Tkinter reports the following values:
> Tkinter.__version__ = "$Revision$"
> Tkinter.TkVersion = "8.4"
> Tkinter.TclVersion = "8.4"
>
> I assume I can get past this by hacking up setupext.py; I'm willing to
> do that, but I'm wondering if it makes more sense to fix the bug. How
> many other users are going to be bit by this?
>
> 1.0.1rc1 built with no problems, but I see that setupext.py had some
> revisions since then.
>
> -- Russell
>
> P.S. I have no idea why freetype2 and libpng install without pkg-config;
> I install them in in /usr/local in the usual way. However, those
> warnings have been present for a long time and it never seems to cause
> any trouble.
>
>

This build you are doing is v1.0.1, which  is the old version.  Did you grab
the wrong source, or did we upload the wrong stuff?

Ben Root