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ensure freetype is really optional #3732
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This is (yet more) issues finding freetype. I suspect that if you |
I just ran into this and |
It seems that in mucking with setup.py, freetype seems to have become a required dependency, this should be fixed. |
It's always been a required dependency -- I'm not sure how it could be fixed without making text an optional feature. It's used even if you aren't using the Agg backend to get font metrics. |
In that case, we should fix the documentation which lists it as options (http://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html#optional-dependencies ) |
Indeed. I didn't realize the docs said that. I'll make a PR. |
See #3754 |
Fixed with #3754. |
you can use this Dockerfile to replicate the problem:
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