Bugs?

I have tried to install matplotlib to our IBM cluster P5(aix5)
and get this error message (see below):
The python script output xlC_r xlC_r (2 times) (see end of this email).
Is that right?
John

f05n07l:matplotlib-1.0.0$ python setup.py build
basedirlist is: ['/usr/local']

···

============================================================================
BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
            matplotlib: 1.0.0
                python: 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 23 2009, 14:41:52) [C]
              platform: aix5

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
                 numpy: 1.5.1rc2
             freetype2: 9.22.3

OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
                libpng: 1.2.35
               Tkinter: Tkinter: 73770, Tk: 8.4, Tcl: 8.4
              wxPython: no
                        * wxPython not found
                  Gtk+: no
                        * Building for Gtk+ requires pygtk; you must be
able
                        * to "import gtk" in your build/install
environment
       Mac OS X native: no
                    Qt: no
                   Qt4: no
                 Cairo: no

OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
              datetime: present, version unknown
              dateutil: matplotlib will provide
                  pytz: matplotlib will provide
adding pytz

OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
                dvipng: no
           ghostscript: 5.50
                 latex: no
               pdftops: 1.00

[Edit setup.cfg to suppress the above messages]

pymods ['pylab']
packages ['matplotlib', 'matplotlib.backends',
'matplotlib.backends.qt4_editor', 'matplotlib.projections',
'matplotlib.testing', 'matplotlib.testing.jpl_units',
'matplotlib.tests', 'mpl_toolkits', 'mpl_toolkits.mplot3d',
'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid', 'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1',
'mpl_toolkits.axisartist', 'matplotlib.sphinxext',
'matplotlib.numerix', 'matplotlib.numerix.mlab',
'matplotlib.numerix.ma', 'matplotlib.numerix.linear_algebra',
'matplotlib.numerix.random_array', 'matplotlib.numerix.fft',
'matplotlib.tri', 'matplotlib.delaunay', 'pytz', 'dateutil',
'dateutil/zoneinfo']
running build
running build_py
copying lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc ->
build/lib.aix-5.3-2.6/matplotlib/mpl-data
copying lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlib.conf ->
build/lib.aix-5.3-2.6/matplotlib/mpl-data
running build_ext
building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension
xlC_r xlC_r
-bI:/usr/local/python/python-2.6.3/lib/python2.6/config/python.exp
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/src/ft2font.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/src/mplutils.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxx_extensions.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/IndirectPythonInterface.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxxsupport.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxxextensions.o -L/opt/freeware/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -lstdc++ -lm -o
build/lib.aix-5.3-2.6/matplotlib/ft2font.so
/usr/vacpp/bin/xlC_r: 1501-228 (W) input file xlC_r not found
error: command 'xlC_r' failed with exit status 252

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2010/12/15 John Floan <john.floan@...2639...>:

I have tried to install matplotlib to our IBM cluster P5(aix5)
and get this error message (see below):
The python script output xlC_r xlC_r (2 times) (see end of this email).
Is that right?
John

building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension
xlC_r xlC_r
-bI:/usr/local/python/python-2.6.3/lib/python2.6/config/python.exp
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/src/ft2font.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/src/mplutils.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxx_extensions.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/IndirectPythonInterface.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxxsupport.o
build/temp.aix-5.3-2.6/CXX/cxxextensions.o -L/opt/freeware/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -lstdc++ -lm -o
build/lib.aix-5.3-2.6/matplotlib/ft2font.so
/usr/vacpp/bin/xlC_r: 1501-228 (W) input file xlC_r not found
error: command 'xlC_r' failed with exit status 252

I think this is a bug in the layer beneath mpl, so neither user nor
matplotlib error. I'm not at all an IBM cluster expert, I'm not even
a user.

All,
Can anyone tell if he should upgrade maybe distutils or setuptools? I
don't remember which did what ...

John,
Did you compile numpy yourself? I strongly believe you did. In that
case, did the linkage instructions work for that properly? If yes,
then I might be proven wrong.

Did the commands for compilation (those which creates e.g.
cxx_extensions.o) use xlC_r too?

Friedrich