Re: [Matplotlib-users] Import problem on RH 9

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

>>>>> "christophe" == christophe grimault <chr...@no...> writes:


    christophe> The import of the numeric version of the _transforms
    christophe> module, _nc_transforms, failed.  This is either
    christophe> because numeric was unavailable when matplotlib was
    christophe> compiled, or because a dependency of _nc_transforms
    christophe> could not be satisfied.  If it appears that
    christophe> _nc_transforms was not built, make sure you have a
    christophe> working copy of numeric and then re-install
    christophe> matplotlib. Otherwise, the following traceback gives
    christophe> more details:

Try rm -rf ing your build directory and your site-packages/matplotlib
directory and do a clean rebuild and reinstall.  We've seen a lot of
problems not too different from yours when installing recent versions
of matplotlib over older versions.  If you're still encountering
troubles, post back and we'll try something different.

    christophe> ImportError:
    christophe> /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/_nc_transforms.so:
    christophe> undefined symbol: _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE

This is a linker error, I don't think changing your include paths will
help.

    christophe> I tried many things in the setupext.py. Freetype is
    christophe> correctly installed and Numeric is in
    christophe> /opt/Numeric23.1. I added this to the
    christophe> script.... because the way it appends include/lib path
    christophe> seems a little buggy to me.

    christophe> I also tried other things. I still get the same error
    christophe> message. I'm stuck ! Has anyone encoutered this
    christophe> problem ?  solved it ? Shall i install a newer version
    christophe> of Numeric ? In an other place than /opt ?

matplotlib certainly works with Numeric 23.1.  I would advise you to
upgrade to the latest Numeric because many bugs have been fixed since
23.1, but it won't stop matplotlib from working.  

JDH