geo_demo fails on OpenBSD

[vext01]

As discussed in #2101, geo_demo from the old test suite fails on OpenBSD:

    driving ../pylab_examples/geo_demo.py           
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "_tmp_geo_demo.py", line 32, in <module>
    savefig(r"pdf/geo_demo", dpi=150)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 472, in savefig
    return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1370, in savefig
    self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2117, in print_figure
    **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2327, in print_pdf
    self.figure.draw(renderer)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 54, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1006, in draw
    func(*args)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 54, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2089, in draw
    a.draw(renderer)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 54, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1055, in draw
    tick.draw(renderer)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 54, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/axis.py", line 233, in draw
    self.gridline.draw(renderer)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/artist.py", line 54, in draw_wrapper
    draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/lines.py", line 528, in draw
    drawFunc(renderer, gc, tpath, affine.frozen())
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/lines.py", line 867, in _draw_lines
    self._lineFunc(renderer, gc, path, trans)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/lines.py", line 929, in _draw_dotted
    renderer.draw_path(gc, path, trans)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 1516, in draw_path
    self.check_gc(gc, rgbFace)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 1446, in check_gc
    delta = self.gc.delta(gc)
  File "/home/edd/source/matplotlib/build/lib.openbsd-5.3-amd64-2.7/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2171, in delta
    ours = np.asarray(ours)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/numeric.py", line 235, in asarray
    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order)
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.

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[vext01]

This is from the v1.2.x branch.

[tacaswell]

@vext01 I can not reproduce this on arch with current master. If you can still reproduce this please re-open this issue.