[SciPy-user] matplotlib error after numpy 0.9.8 installation

[David M. Cooke]

"morovia" <morovia at rediffmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
>       Did anyone have matplotlib working after recent numpy
> 0.9.8 version installation.  I tried to reinstall matplotlib
> after numpy installation.  I got the error which I appended 
> below.  

It works for me (well, the subversion version of matplotlib). Did you
remove the build/ directory in your matplotlib source directory first?
That can screw things up. And for a good measure remove the installed
version first from site-packages/ before reinstalling.

> Thanks,
> Best regards,
> Morovia.
>
> from pylab import *
>   
> The import of the numpy version of the _transforms module,
> _ns_transforms, failed.  This is is either because numpy was
> unavailable when matplotlib was compiled, because a dependency of
> _ns_transforms could not be satisfied, or because the build flag for
> this module was turned off in setup.py.  If it appears that
> _ns_transforms was not built, make sure you have a working copy of
> numpy and then re-install matplotlib. Otherwise, the following
> traceback gives more details:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/myprogs/mpfit-current.py", line 11, in ?
>     from pylab import *
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
>     from matplotlib.pylab import *
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 200, in ?
>     from axes import Axes, PolarAxes
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 14, in?
>     from artist import Artist, setp
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 4, in ?
>     from transforms import identity_transform
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/transforms.py", line 189, in ?
>     from _transforms import Value, Point, Interval, Bbox, Affine
>   File "/disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/_transforms.py", line17, in ?
>     from matplotlib._ns_transforms import *
> ImportError: /disk2/data/cd/user10/bin/python243/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/_ns_transforms.so: undefined symbol: _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE
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