[R] problem installing cairo on freebsd

[Ben Madin]

G'day Rainer,

I just wanted to say thank you again, this tip has saved me again.

cheers

Ben


On 07/08/2009, at 1:33 , Rainer Hurling wrote:

> Late, but hopefully not too late ...
> 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I had same problem with Cairo-1.4-5 on FreeBSD CURRENT-8.0 (i386). On of the authors of Cairo (thanks to Simon Urbanek) reminded me to use gmake instead of make. So in my case I set the environment variable temporarily like this (in tcsh):
> 
> setenv MAKE gmake
> R CMD INSTALL Cairo-1.4-5.tar.gz
> unsetenv MAKE
> 
> That's all. Good luck,
> Rainer
> 
> 
> On 21.07.2009 09:53 (UTC+2), Ben Madin wrote:
>> G'day all,
>> I am trying to install the cairo package on FreeBSD and receiving an error to do with Makevars - (I'm not very good at this stuff) so here is my various bits of information. I guess this is a problem with a missing library, but I have just been through a lot of grief trying to get png and jpeg to work (they do now work!), so I'm not sure where to go for this.
>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>> on
>> FreeBSD server.ausvet.com.au 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun  7 13:33:54 EST 2008     ben at server.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AUSVET_CUSTOM  i386
>> with :
>> cairo-1.8.8,1 and
>> p5-Cairo-1.061
>> using :
>> install.packages("Cairo")
>> and I get this:
>> trying URL 'http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/contrib/Cairo_1.4-5.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 75318 bytes (73 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 73 Kb
>> * Installing *source* package 'Cairo' ...
>> checking for gcc... gcc43 -std=gnu99
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>> checking for suffix of executables...
>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>> checking whether gcc43 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
>> checking for gcc43 -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cpp
>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
>> checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>> checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>> checking for string.h... yes
>> checking for memory.h... yes
>> checking for strings.h... yes
>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
>> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
>> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
>> checking for sys/time.h... yes
>> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
>> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
>> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... yes
>> checking for configurable backends... gnome-config: not found
>> gnome-config: not found
>> cairo cairo-ft cairo-pdf cairo-png cairo-ps cairo-xlib cairo-xlib-xrender
>> configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=-D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
>> checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
>> checking cairo.h usability... yes
>> checking cairo.h presence... yes
>> checking for cairo.h... yes
>> checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes
>> checking for ATS font support in Cairo... no
>> configure: CAIRO_LIBS=-pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lpng -lm -lz -lXrender -lcairo -lX11
>> checking for library containing deflate... none required
>> checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled... yes
>> checking whether cairo_image_surface_get_format is declared... no
>> checking for FreeType support in cairo... yes
>> checking whether FreeType needs additional flags... no
>> checking wheter libjpeg works... yes
>> checking wheter libtiff works... yes
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating src/Makevars
>> config.status: creating src/cconfig.h
>> ** libs
>> "Makevars", line 2: Need an operator
>> "Makevars", line 4: Need an operator
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Cairo'
>> * Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/Cairo'
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>   '/tmp/RtmpcIvbUg/downloaded_packages'
>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("Cairo") :
>> installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status
>> cheers
>> Ben