Re: [Matplotlib-users] pycxx

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Novak <no...@uc...> writes:

    Greg> I upgraded to Fedora Core 3 and hence spent some time
    Greg> rebuiding all of the Python modules I use frequently...

Makes you wish for a good python package manager ...

    Greg> In order to compile matplotlib, I had to install pycxx as a
    Greg> separate package.  I noticed that there was a cxx directory
    Greg> in the matplotlib tree, but it didn't seem to be using it.


    Greg> I got it to compile and it seems to be working.  This
    Greg> message is just for someone's information to point out the
    Greg> dependency, or the fact that the stuff in the cxx directory
    Greg> doesn't seem to be satisfying it.

You shouldn't need a separate pycxx - all the cxx requirements ship
with matplotlib, and the paths to them are hardwired in the setup.py
file.  Try this ( I know you already got it working but it would be
helpful for me if there is a problem to know the source of it)

 1) get a new copy of matplotlib (perhaps you got an incomplete
    download) -
    http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.64.tar.gz


 2) unpack it in a new directory so that you have a clean build tree

 3) rm -rf your site-packages/matplotlib tree

 4) python setup.py build.  If the build fails, please capture the
    standard output and standard error from the build process and send
    it to me.


Thanks,
JDH