Matplotlib install failure on Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Question

I tried to install matplotlib on my MacBook Air, but it always gives me this error message:

 Processing matplotlib-1.1.1_notests.tar.gz
 Running matplotlib-1         


        

Answer 1

I am using MacOs 10.8 too, and I encountered the same problem regarding not finding ft2build.h header when I tried to install matplotlib, what I l did to resolve the reported issue is :

1) replacing "ft2build.h" in the following call within the file "setupext.py" :

                                 return self._check_for_pkg_config('freetype2', 
                                 'ft2build.h',
                                  min_version='2.4', 
                                  version=version)

by the complete path to the ft2build.h header, in my case :

                                return self._check_for_pkg_config('freetype2', 
                               '/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.5.2/include/freetype2/ft2build.h',
                                min_version='2.4', 
                                version=version)