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authorDoron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>2024-01-07 10:28:52 +0200
committerDmitry Kalinkin <dmitry.kalinkin@gmail.com>2024-01-11 14:03:46 -0500
commiteba8931d4c2cbe5b87c457a9e41eae8940ba62ee (patch)
tree5e5f1f63321703c2bee2d0c13857535aa4c42106 /pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib
parente68cf14d27fbebf87656762c02ab980b19d7796b (diff)
python310Packages.matplotlib: comments fixes
The link to the build docs is outdated, and it doesn't have an updated direct alternative. While I tried to enable at least some of the tests, I encountered https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/255262 which is now linked in a comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
index bad385ee3ad9..8fb5c7c292cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
, isPyPy
, pythonOlder
-# https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/devel/dependencies.rst
# build-system
, certifi
, pkg-config
@@ -182,8 +181,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
env.MPLSETUPCFG = writeText "mplsetup.cfg" (lib.generators.toINI {} passthru.config);
- # Matplotlib needs to be built against a specific version of freetype in
- # order for all of the tests to pass.
+ # Encountering a ModuleNotFoundError, as describved and investigated at:
+ # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/255262 . It could be that some of
+ # which may fail due to a freetype version that doesn't match the freetype
+ # version used by upstream.
doCheck = false;
meta = with lib; {