[Yt-dev] Call for testing: New install script (also some GUI things and OSX 10.6)

[Rick Wagner]

Hi Matt,

On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:

> Hi Rick,
> 
>> Yes, I've used the 10.6 script in the past with no problem. Personally, all of the software I build on my Mac goes into /usr/local. This can be rationalized as a desire for consistency with other computes that I work with, but it's really just that I don't build enough OS X-specific software to learn about frameworks, etc.
> 
> I've learned enough about Frameworks to mostly regret it.  ;-)  My
> recollection of the motivation for framework builds is twofold -- one
> for the access to the native widgets, and the other (possibly the same
> thing?) was the access to the ObjC frameworks.  For instance, you can
> get bindings to do a lot of things.  But with yt, specifically, we
> have no reason to use any of the ObjC frameworks.
> 
> So I guess the question is, if the install_script.sh works, do we want
> to spend *any* effort on maintaining a second set of scripts for the
> framework builds?  Or should we just say adios to them?  I see that
> you've used the 10.6 script, but has the old install_script.sh (or
> even the current one with INST_BZLIB = 0) worked for you?

Since I've started testing it, I'll keep going. With bzlib "off", the next failure is matplotlib looking for FreeType. I have this in /usr/local, but that may not be part of the search path. Is there any way to modify the include and linking flags?

--Rick

Installing matplotlib-0.99.3 (arguments: 'matplotlib-0.99.3')
Failure.  Check /Users/rpwagner/tmp/yt-test-install/yt-i386/yt_install.log.
namor:yt-test-install rpwagner$ tail yt-i386/yt_install.log 
src/ft2font.h:127: error: template argument 2 is invalid
src/ft2font.h:133: error: ‘FT_BBox’ does not name a type
src/ft2font.cpp:45: error: ‘FT_Library’ does not name a type
src/ft2font.cpp:96: error: variable or field ‘draw_bitmap’ declared void
src/ft2font.cpp:96: error: ‘FT_Bitmap’ was not declared in this scope
src/ft2font.cpp:96: error: ‘bitmap’ was not declared in this scope
src/ft2font.cpp:97: error: ‘FT_Int’ was not declared in this scope
src/ft2font.cpp:98: error: ‘FT_Int’ was not declared in this scope
/Users/rpwagner/tmp/yt-test-install/yt-i386/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy/__multiarray_api.h:1187: warning: ‘int _import_array()’ defined but not used
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1