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Merge pull request #14769 from meeseeksmachine/auto-backport-of-pr-14759-on-v3.1.x
Backport PR #14759 on branch v3.1.x (DOC: note about having to rebuild after switching to local freetype)
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‎doc/devel/contributing.rst

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or set the ``MPLLOCALFREETYPE`` environmental variable to any true
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value. If you have previously built Matplotlib with a different
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version of Freetype, you will also need to remove the c/c++ build
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products. Do this is to delete the ``build`` folder or ``git clean
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-xfd``. If you are going to be regularly working on Matplotlib,
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consider putting ::
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export MPLLOCALFREETYPE=1
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in your shell start up files.
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Installing Matplotlib in developer mode

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