Strange Build problem....

[Steve Dickson]

On 16/01/13 12:27, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Looking at the F17 version of matplotlib, the default afm font is being set
> to None there -- so a better fix (but requiring fixing in matplotlib) might
> be to patch it like this:
> 
> 
> --- /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py       2012-12-04 21:32:42.000000000 -0500
> +++ font_manager.py     2013-01-16 12:26:21.861202681 -0500
> @@ -991,7 +991,10 @@
>          self.afmfiles = findSystemFonts(paths, fontext='afm') + \
>              findSystemFonts(fontext='afm')
>          self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles, fontext='afm')
> -        self.defaultFont['afm'] = self.afmfiles[0]
> +        try:
> +            self.defaultFont['afm'] = self.afmfiles[0]
> +        except IndexError:
> +            self.defaultFont['afm'] = None
>  
>          self.ttf_lookup_cache = {}
>          self.afm_lookup_cache = {}
This does the trick! Thank you very much!

It turns out this is the patch the caused the problem:

commit eb9a122389b7ec7e33d9816fa669d7cb1f04521a
Author: pcpa <paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 16 13:59:10 2013 -0200

    Use fontconfig by default (#885307)

CC-ing the author and created this bz:
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896182

Thanks again for you time and effort! It was definitely
appreciated!! 
 
steved.