diff --git a/readme_4062.txt b/readme_4062.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e723d77729d8
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+++ b/readme_4062.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+The objective of this Pull Request is to make installation more robust on mac's regarding freetype paths   
+
+Analysis on existing commit(master 8f10470):
++ Setup.py has a list of pre-requisit packages "mpl_packages."
++ A for loop after "__main__" check goes through this list.
++ If package.check() returns a value other than None, setup recognizes that package.
+
++ Setupext.py has a class for Freetype incluidng check().
++ FreeType check() method searches for a header file name "ft2build.h."
+
++ On mac, FreeType check() method works as follows.
+++ Using "freetype-config --ftversion" command, check version.
+++ check() returns the return value from _check_for_pkg_config().
+
++++ _check_for_pkg_config() belongs to superclass SetupPackage of setupext.py
++++ _check_for_pkg_config() calls self.get_extension() to obtain ext object
+		Here, because FreeType doesn't overload get_extension() method, 
+			calls SetupPackage.get_extension() returning None
++++ Then, _check_for_pkg_config() calls make_extension('test', []) for ext object
+			whose include_dirs covers
+				['/usr/local/include', '/usr/include', '/usr/X11/include', '/opt/X11/include', '.']
++++ _check_for_pkg_config() returns result from check_include_file() 
+
+++++ check_include_file() searches for include files within paths in ext.include_dirs 
+++++ check_include_file() calls has_include_file(include_dirs, filename)
++++++ has_include_file(include_dirs, filename) searches for following files
+	/usr/local/include/ft2build.h
+	/usr/include/ft2build.h
+	/usr/X11/include/ft2build.h
+	/opt/X11/include/ft2build.h
+	./ft2build.h
++++++ possible locations are
+	/opt/X11/include/freetype2
+	/usr/local/include/freetype2
+
+++ Hence, it could be more desirable if FreeType get_extension() could return
+	an ext object with include_dirs information about paths above
diff --git a/setupext.py b/setupext.py
index 780a21f0ee3a..25ae221d1e1f 100755
--- a/setupext.py
+++ b/setupext.py
@@ -933,6 +933,20 @@ def add_flags(self, ext):
             default_libraries=['freetype', 'z'])
 
 
+    def get_extension(self):
+        sources = []
+        include_dirs = ['include/freetype2', 'freetype2',
+                'lib/freetype2/include',
+                'lib/freetype2/include/freetype2',
+                '/opt/X11/include/freetype2',   # mac osx X window installation
+                '/usr/local/include/freetype2'  # ref : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4092994/unable-to-install-matplotlib-on-mac-os-x
+                ]
+        ext = make_extension('matplotlib.freetype', sources,
+                             include_dirs = include_dirs)
+        Numpy().add_flags(ext)
+        return ext
+
+
 class FT2Font(SetupPackage):
     name = 'ft2font'
 
diff --git a/test_4062.py b/test_4062.py
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index 000000000000..5c71c0fc83c0
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+++ b/test_4062.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import setupext
+import unittest
+from pprint import pprint
+reload(setupext)
+
+class testFreetypeRobustInstallation (unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.ft = setupext.FreeType()
+
+    def test_check(self):
+        self.assertEqual(r"version 2.5.5", self.ft.check())
+
+    def test_get_extension(self):
+        '''test FreeType get_extension() for returnedn .include_dirs'''
+        print "test_get_extension ".ljust(60, '+')
+        ext = self.ft.get_extension()
+        print "ext.include_dirs ".ljust(30, '+')
+        pprint (ext.include_dirs)
+
+    def test_make_extension(self):
+        ext = setupext.make_extension('test', [])
+        print "test_make_extension ".ljust(60, '*')
+        print ext.include_dirs
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        del self.ft
+
+if "__main__" == __name__:
+    unittest.main()