Movie Review: Public Enemies

Boring.

Year in review

It's been just over a year since I started this blog. I posted a LOT more than I thought I would. Also, I apparently dropped the tradition of reviewing beers. So I'll start by reviewing some beers!

Mountain Sun Hummingbird - a strong honey-ale (meade-beer?) brewed with orange blossom honey. Slightly darker than a typical Belgian Golden but similar in style. The beer is mildly sweet but very drinkable. Hmm... there are flavors I should mention but they escape me.

Mountain Sun/Avery Van Diemens - brewed with Tasmanian Pepper Berry, this is a very curious, semi-dark beer. When I first sampled it, I tasted a little bit of pepper kick at the end, but couldn't really identify any other flavors. Yesterday I sampled it next to a burrito with some somewhat spicy salsa. Somehow, since my mouth was already sensitized to spiciness, the flavor I got was root beer (sassafras?). It was... odd. Pretty good, but I didn't end up purchasing a glass.

Moving on to code. I don't know why I haven't mentioned this, but with my discovery of svn, I started uploading my code to the webternets: agpy is my Google Code page and includes a number of useful python codes, especially readcol and gaussfitter, which I have tested and used extensively since writing them. Python is still a long way from a cohesive astrolib code base, but with individual contributions, the STSCI development group, and APLpy underway, we're getting closer.

SUCCESS! 64 bit python with 64 bit tcl/tk!!!

After a long, tedious process (see previous posts), I got 64 bit python, 64 bit tcl/tk, and 64 bit tkinter all to work! I can now use the TkAgg backend in matplotlib!

Python 64 bit on Mac OS X: Sam Skillman's post

Tcl/Tk 64 bit: a post on the tcl/tk forums

tkinter 64 bit: python bug report 4017 (last two posts give the solution) and my posted solution

Failure to compile 64 bit gtk on mac os

Attempted to install gtk+-2.17.2 on my mac. Had to install:
glib-2.21.2
which would not let me compile with multiple architectures, and
pkgconfig-0.9.0,
which won't configure because:

configure: configuring in glib-1.2.8
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr/local CC= CFLAGS= LDFLAGS= --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
configure: warning: CC=: invalid host type
configure: warning: CFLAGS=: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for glib-1.2.8


which is bs because I don't have any compiler flags set.

So, gtk+ seems hopeless.

UPDATE: 0.9.0 is not the latest version, 0.23.0 is. Dumb version numbering.


GTK is absurd to install. You need:
pkg-config
glib
cairo
pixman
pango (MUST be installed AFTER cairo)
atk
libtiff
libjpg
jpeg2000 - but I just passed a flag to not do this because it didn't install right. --without-libjasper
fontconfig I mean, really? at this point it's just ridiculous....

and finally, it died with this:
checking Pango flags... configure: error:
*** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required
*** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information.

which meant that I had to reinstall Pango because I had installed it before Cairo.

I believe this is where the term dependency hell comes from.

Also, I don't think any of these are x86-64 compatible.


Then I'm STILL not done.

PyGTK dies with an import error on dsextras, which a painful google search traces to pygobject. pygobject makes and installs fine.... but then I find out it installed to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/, which is obviously not on my python path since I installed a framework.

So:
./configure --prefix=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/
in both pygobject and pygtk.

Oh, guess what? Need pycairo too. What happens there? What you'd guess:
ld warning: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/local/lib/libcairo.dylib, file is not of required architecture

so when I configure pygtk:

The following modules will be built:

atk
pango

The following modules will NOT be built:

pangocairo
gtk
gtk.glade
gtk.unixprint

Damn. That blows.

python-64 -c "import gtk"
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

FAIL.

Installing 64 bit tcl/tk on Mac OS X

Everything is described in this post:
http://www.nabble.com/Error-compiling-tk-8.5.7-on-Mac-OS-X-10.5-td23790967.html


But here's a script too:

curl -O 'http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/t{cl,k}8.5.7-src.tar.gz'
for f in t*8.5.7*.gz; do tar zxf $f; done
cd tcl8.5.7/unix/
./configure --enable-framework --enable-64-bit
cd tk8.5.7/unix/
./configure --enable-framework --enable-64-bit
make -j 4 -C tcl8.5.7/unix
make -j 4 -C tk8.5.7/unix
sudo make install -C tcl8.5.7/unix
sudo make install -C tk8.5.7/unix


Concerns:
-might be necessary to do this in the macosx directory for some reason, though Aqua doesn't support 64 bits
-have to recompile python to get _tkinter to work (see a later post)