If you saw my previous post about upgrading to XDarwin 1.1.3, and breaking matplotlib, the following seems to work:
Soft-linking to libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib rather than libfreetype.6.3.dylib (see below, copied from previous email).
Thanks for that Apple!
-Tony
>>> import numpy as N
N.__version__
'0.9.6'
import matplotlib
matplotlib.__version__
'0.87.2'
import pylab as PLT
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 200, in ?
from axes import Axes, PolarAxes
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 15, in ?
from axis import XAxis, YAxis
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 25, in ?
from font_manager import FontProperties
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 39, in ?
from matplotlib import ft2font
ImportError: Failure linking new module: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Reason: Incompatible library version: ft2font.so requires version 10.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 6.3.0
I note that in /usr/X11R6/lib that softlinks to the libraries mentioned above were recently changed:
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/usr/X11R6/lib
jplajm:8:lib $ ll libfree*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1786588 Apr 28 2006 libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 683560 Nov 6 17:31 libfreetype.6.3.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 21 09:07 libfreetype.6.dylib -> libfreetype.6.3.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1907688 Apr 28 2006 libfreetype.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 21 09:07 libfreetype.dylib -> libfreetype.6.3.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 836 Apr 28 2006 libfreetype.la
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Tony Mannucci wrote:
If you saw my previous post about upgrading to XDarwin 1.1.3, and breaking matplotlib, the following seems to work:
Soft-linking to libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib rather than libfreetype.6.3.dylib (see below, copied from previous email).
That's interesting. I don't have a 6.3.8, only 6.3 (and 6, linked to 6.3). I did just install the latest Apple X11 update.
Also, in the past, MPL has been know not to work with Apple's X11 libfreetype. I wonder if you had installed 6.3.8 yourself. That would have explained it, in that usually if you install, for instance, 6.3.8, there would be a link from 6.3 to 6.3.8, which may have been what you linked to originally. Then, if Apple provided a new 6.3 with their X11, it overwrote yours.
I do note that your 6.3.8 is MUCH larger than 6.3, which is a bit curious.
Anyway, most of us end up linking MPL statically against a self-installed libfreetype, just for these reasons.
-Chris
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Christopher Barker wrote:
Tony Mannucci wrote:
If you saw my previous post about upgrading to XDarwin 1.1.3, and breaking matplotlib, the following seems to work:
Soft-linking to libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib rather than libfreetype.6.3.dylib (see below, copied from previous email).
That's interesting. I don't have a 6.3.8, only 6.3 (and 6, linked to 6.3). I did just install the latest Apple X11 update.
Same here (intel mac with X11 1.1.3).
-Jeff
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One more note:
Christopher Barker wrote:
I wonder if you had installed 6.3.8 yourself.
If you did, it really should have been put in /usr/local/ somewhere --
then you wouldn't risk conflicts with Apple's version.
-Chris
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Chris,
Yes, well I probably installed libfreetype myself, as part of the source installs. I know very little about these internals, so I did nothing "on purpose." It's disconcerting that the X11 update overwrote things in this way. Luckily, it appears there are no other side effects. The fix was possible because of good error reporting from mpl.
Thanks for your comments.
-Tony
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At 7:53 AM -0800 11/22/06, Christopher Barker wrote:
Tony Mannucci wrote:
If you saw my previous post about upgrading to XDarwin 1.1.3, and breaking matplotlib, the following seems to work:
Soft-linking to libfreetype.6.3.8.dylib rather than libfreetype.6.3.dylib (see below, copied from previous email).
That's interesting. I don't have a 6.3.8, only 6.3 (and 6, linked to 6.3). I did just install the latest Apple X11 update.
Also, in the past, MPL has been know not to work with Apple's X11 libfreetype. I wonder if you had installed 6.3.8 yourself. That would have explained it, in that usually if you install, for instance, 6.3.8, there would be a link from 6.3 to 6.3.8, which may have been what you linked to originally. Then, if Apple provided a new 6.3 with their X11, it overwrote yours.
I do note that your 6.3.8 is MUCH larger than 6.3, which is a bit curious.
Anyway, most of us end up linking MPL statically against a self-installed libfreetype, just for these reasons.
-Chris
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Oceanographer
Emergency Response Division
NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice
7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax
Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception
Chris.Barker@...259...
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Tony Mannucci
Supervisor, Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group
Mail-Stop 138-308, Tel > (818) 354-1699
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fax > (818) 393-5115
California Institute of Technology, Email > Tony.Mannucci@...369...
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Pasadena, CA 91109