Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib 1.0.1rc available for testing, building

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Russell Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:

> The news:
> - The Mac binary installer for python.org Python 2.6 works on my Mac OS X
> 10.4 and 10.5 machines (both Intel). However, it segfaults on my 10.6
> machine if there is no existing ~/.matplotlib and ~/.fontconfig. If others
> could test this it would be most helpful. I have not yet tried it on 10.3.9.
>
> To reiterate: a proper test is:
> - delete ~/.matplotlib if it exists
> - delete ~/.fontconfig if it exists
> - run python and try to import pylab or matplotlib
>
> -- Russell
>


If you run an example with --verbose-debug-annoying with a clean cache,
you'll get more information about what font file it is parsing right before
the crash.  Not sure if this will help, but it would be interesting to see.

JDH