Problem importing ft2font

"/bmm/scratch/brj03/python-latest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py",

    > line 39, in ? from matplotlib import ft2font ImportError:
    > /bmm/scratch/brj03/python-latest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so:
    > undefined symbol:
    > _ZNSs7replaceEN9__gnu_cxx17__normal_iteratorIPcSsEES2_jc

    > There seem to be problems with the ft2font.so library. Can
    > anyone help?

This looks a little like either a C++ name mangling issue (could you
have used two different versions of g++ in the compiling of mpl or
it's dependencies) or else a discrepancy between which freetype
include headers are found and which libraries you are linking with.

Nadia was working on a patch to statically include freetype and
similar libs. STScI folks: is this still in the works?

JDH