Comment 35 for bug 607395

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 16:08, WeatherGod <email address hidden> wrote:
> I haven't figured out your particular error, but browsing through the
> build log revealed that the local copy of the sample data is incomplete:
>
> /tmp/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py:322: PlotWarning: Exception running plot /tmp/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/image_demo2.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/tmp/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py", line 319, in render_figures
>    run_code(plot_path, function_name, plot_code, context=context)
>  File "/tmp/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py", line 230, in run_code
>    "__plot__", fd, fname, ('py', 'r', imp.PY_SOURCE))
>  File "image_demo2.py", line 9, in <module>
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/sampledata/ct.raw'

known error, that example will simple be skipped, irrelevant to this discussion.

>
> In addition, the log also revealed a slight logical error on the part of upstream matplotlib, because it attempts to generate a basemap image, but matplotlib is not dependent on basemap -- minor issue, though.

known too, irrelevant for this discussion.

>  There are a few other build errors, but I believe they were fixed in subsequent revisions to matplotlib 1.0.x branch.

why do you believe that? did you report them upstream? did you check
upstream VCS?

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