Re: [pygame] Pygame and Enthought

[Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM, David Arnold <dwarnold45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I can build up the nerve to:

sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libpng.dylib
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.dylib

It's not what you think at all - Did you read the instructions just above those lines?

Those 2 files are not system files - snow leopard installs don't normally have libpng and libjpeg dylibs in that path. The package that the instructions refer to which the previous line tells you to install is what creates those files. It's basically suggesting you remove those files immediately after asking you to add them.

The reason for deleting them has to do with the idea of building a pygame installer on the mac, or with using py2app. If those dylib files exist, the build process may choose to link the built pygame to the dylibs (instead of using the static libs). If you then try and take that built pygame to another system (through a pygame installer or py2app) that built pygame will be dependent on those 2 dylibs being in that location, which means it will error on that other machine unless it runs the libjpeg and libpng installer as well.

Now in your case, if you don't care if your built pygame has those dependencies, by all means skip the rm step. However, if you were thinking of making a pygame installer for other enthought users to save them the trouble you went through, then you should definitely go ahead and remove those files - knowing that they are just kruft you installed yourself.