[matplotlib-devel] Re: Some notes on building from CVS

[Gary P. <pa...@in...>]

Great timing. I've just been struggling with the os x build, and had gotten
as far as the fontweight problem.  A warning about X11 on 10.2.8:  My Apple
X11 beta system was working perfectly, but I decided to fix it anyway and
upgrade to a newer Xfree86 X11.  This causes some kind of compatibility
problem with freetype, and numerous headaches for me, not yet solved.
Attempts to back up to the Apple beta have failed.  I have other ideas, but
that's not for this list.

On os x I use the fink python exclusively.  The reason is that I use Vpython
which has been ported only to the fink python system.  Until I "fixed" it,
everything worked perfectly smoothly.  I use the fink scipy.  I seem to
remember that someone has gotten the cvs compiled; check the scipy archives.

On Mandrake 10.0 cvs compiles smoothly.

-gary