[Pythonmac-SIG] Fw: Re: Any hints on building libpng universal?

[Christopher Barker]

David Warde-Farley wrote:
> Chris Barker brought it to my attention that packages that go bup on 
> Pythonmac.org should have their own static copies of (non system?) 
> dependencies.

That's right. I think libpng and libfreetype are the ones required at 
this point.

>  The current matplotlib package expects libpng in 
> /usr/local/lib.

is it dependent on the freetype in Apple's X11? I have a build installed 
  that is, though I'm not totally sure where I got it.

Didn't Russell Owen point you to directions? Here they are again:

http://www.astro.washington.edu/rowen/BuildingMatplotlibForMac.html

The only problem with those is that it required deleting the dylib, but 
if you have other apps that depend on it, you won't want to do that. At 
some point, I has set up my system with a "StaticLibs Dir" in the MPL 
source, and edited the setup.py to find stuff there. Should I dig this 
up and contribute it?

-Chris



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