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The link to the build docs is outdated, and it doesn't have an updated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.
This commit is contained in:
Doron Behar
2024-01-11 14:03:46 -05:00
committed by Dmitry Kalinkin
parent e68cf14d27
commit eba8931d4c
@@ -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; {