FreeType

[Robert Kern]

Steve Holden wrote:

> Alternatively use the Python Imaging Library (PIL), which I believe 
> includes freetype support.

The OP seems to be trying to build matplotlib, which actually does require the
FreeType library. The PIL, lovely though it is, is not a substitute.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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