[Yt-dev] Call for testing: Freetype module build system

[Matthew Turk]

Oh, weird.  But now it works?

So I guess we're unanimously +1 (now that this has been fixed ;-) from
those who have tested?

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, John Wise <jwise at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I managed to fix this by installing my own copy of libpng.  Previously I was using the system's copy in /usr.  But there's also a copy of freetype2 in /usr.  So the include paths had two copies of freetype2 in them with the system-wide (faulty) one taking precedence.  I'm not sure why this didn't cause me problems with matplotlib.
>
> John
>
> On 14 Dec 2010, at 14:12, Matthew Turk wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Okay, I think this might be related to the way FreeType2 does its
>> includes, which I think is a bit odd, and which I may not have
>> implemented correctly in yt/utilities/setup.py.  Is it finding the
>> correct .h files, and then it's not able to identify the symbols?  (At
>> compilation, or during link?)  Can you fiddle with the actual freetype
>> includes in that setup.py, and then see if there's some kind of
>> logical sense I am missing with the build?
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:10 AM, John Wise <jwise at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
>>> It still gives the same error.
>>>
>>> C compiler: icc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC
>>>
>>> compile options: '-DPNG_SETJMP_NOT_SUPPORTED=True -Iyt/utilities/_amr_utils/ -I/usr/include -I/u/jhwise/local/include -I/u/jhwise/local/include/freetype2 -I/u/jhwise/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core
>>> /include -I/u/jhwise/local/include/python2.7 -c'
>>> icc: yt/utilities/_amr_utils/FixedInterpolator.c
>>> icc: command line warning #10120: overriding '-O2' with '-O3'
>>> [...]
>>> yt/utilities/amr_utils.c(1245): error: identifier "FT_Library" is undefined
>>>
>>> There are similar errors when FT_Face, FT_GlyphSlot, etc. are undefined.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Dec 2010, at 14:02, Matthew Turk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the (so far!) positive (mostly!) feedback.
>>>>
>>>> John -- you should be able to set the base directory in freetype.cfg,
>>>> just like png.cfg and hdf5.cfg.  If you give that a shot, can you tell
>>>> me if it works?
>>>>
>>>> Also, good to know about the 0.13 thing; cython 0.13 is now part of
>>>> the installation script, but with any luck we can just ship the .c
>>>> files for the most part.
>>>>
>>>> Sam -- I agree, we should have more unified image handling.  As it
>>>> stands, the bitmapping and whatnot is a bit annoying.  I think in
>>>> conjunction with the plot objects (and FRBs) we currently have, an
>>>> ImageBuffer object would be nice.  It could be created from floating
>>>> point values, and then with min/max/colormap properties it could have
>>>> a .bitmap property that would return a bitmap.  Or something like
>>>> that.  I'm still thinking on it, but I believe we could do something
>>>> useful with images.
>>>>
>>>> -Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Wise <jwise at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:
>>>>> On 14 Dec 2010, at 13:49, John Wise wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is great.  It installed with one problem (not related to the freetype additions) on OSX 10.6 with yt installed from the install script.  I still had cython 0.12.1, and it gave me this error
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot to mention that this error went away when I installed cython 0.13.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
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