[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

[Claude F. <cl...@br...>]

Dear colleagues, 

I like to receive an advice about the best back-end choice for Matplotlib 
& Basemap to generate large .png images in a background processing mode. 
Having issues with the pre-compiled "Agg" package which does not work 
under my machine architecture. Also not able to recompile the Agg 2.5 
package as its build throws an error at the build script autogen.sh. 
Error: 

./configure: line 15546: syntax error near unexpected token 
`$SDL_VERSION,'
./configure: line 15546: `AM_PATH_SDL($SDL_VERSION,'

When bypassing this line it runs into another dependency which is blocking 
the make install process.
 
libtool: link: cannot find the library 
`../src/platform/X11/libaggplatformX11.la' or unhandled argument 
`../src/platform/X11/libaggplatformX11.la'
Makefile:1166: recipe for target 'aa_demo' failed
make[1]: *** [aa_demo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/Downloads/agg/agg-2.5/examples'
Makefile:481: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I do not plan to use any interactive access, so my guess is that excluding 
X11 libraries should work OK. 

My test showed that the  "Cairo" package is working fine, but its quality 
(vector oriented) is not as good compared to the Agg raster display. Case 
the "Agg" 
is not able to install on my machine, is there an alternate graphical 
back-end available under SuSE environments? 


Regards,

Claude Falbriard
Certified IT Specialist L2 - Middleware


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