Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: basemap-1.0.5

[Scott S. <sco...@gm...>]

On 7 August 2012 03:10, Jeff Whitaker <js...@fa...> wrote:
> Available for download at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/basemap-1.0.5/

Just a note to anyone experiencing problems building against GEOS
3.3.3 installed from the ubuntu-gis-unstable PPA on Ubuntu. The naming
convention for the GEOS shared library has changed and I had to apply
the patch below as a workaround:

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 216ddf6..dc6d916 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ else:
                                 library_dirs=geos_library_dirs,
                                 runtime_library_dirs=geos_library_dirs,
                                 include_dirs=geos_include_dirs,
-                                libraries=['geos_c','geos']))
+                                libraries=['geos_c','geos-3.3.3']))

 # Specify all the required mpl data
 # create pyproj binary datum shift grid files.

Apparently this is an acceptable practice on Debian systems
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-shlibs),
but no time to dream up a more robust fix right now..

Cheers,
Scott