[cairo] error loading Cairo on R

[Bill Spitzak]

It might be a good idea to remove dependencies on XIntrinsics from 
Cairo. That is long obsolete, no modern toolkit uses XIntrinsics, and 
they are the ones using Cairo.

On 08/21/2014 10:35 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 09:04:58AM -0500, Dan Hyatt wrote:
>> That was the problem,
>>
>> Does the Cairo team want to add this libXt-devel to the instructions
>> on how to install. when I installed the Cairo-dev   yum did not
>> install this
>>   994  yum install cairo-devel
>>
>>   yum install libXt-devel
>
> I'm not familiar with Centos, but generally for packaged Cairo,
> dependency detection is handled by the distro's packaging system.  So
> you might want to start by filing a bug about this with your distro
> that it needs to add this as a dependency for their cairo package.
>
> I think Cairo's source documentation explains what to do about
> dependencies as well enough as can be done given how many compilation
> options Cairo has, but certainly wouldn't mind seeing some improvements
> to README if appropriate.
>
> Bryce
>
>> On 8/20/2014 11:59 PM, RAVI NANJUNDAPPA wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> Quick look at the error log, gives me an impression of missing "libXt-devel" rpm pkg in your build environment.
>>> /usr/include/X11/Intrinsic.h file is provided by "libXt-devel" pkg.
>>> So, could you please check if you have the above pkg installed in your environment ?
>>>
>>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>>> N Ravi
>>>
>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>> Sender : Dan Hyatt<dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu>
>>> Date : Aug 21, 2014 02:43 (GMT+05:30)
>>> Title : [cairo] error loading Cairo on R
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am having trouble installing Cairo on my server with R... Below is the
>>> error at the end of compilation. I have tried several methods, and have
>>> installed cairo-dev package on my server.
>>> This is Centos6.5, running R 3.1.
>>> We have Cairo running on our old redhat4.3 which is being deprecated.
>>> I installed the Cairo-dev package from the command line using YUM
>>> I have installed this package using several methods and it fails in the
>>> end....indicating it does not like the make on Xlib-backend.o
>>> I set the R_LIBS and
>>> install.packages("Cairo",repos='http://cran.r-project.org')
>>>
>>> xlib-backend.c:34:74: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
>>> xlib-backend.c: In function ‘Rcairo_init_xlib’:
>>> xlib-backend.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function
>>> ‘XrmUniqueQuark’
>>> make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Cairo’
>>> * removing ‘/dsg_cent/packages/Cairo’
>>>
>>> The downloaded source packages are in
>>> ‘/tmp/RtmpKRhdqt/downloaded_packages’
>>> Warning message:
>>> In install.packages("Cairo", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org") :
>>> installation of package ‘Cairo’ had non-zero exit status
>>>> version
>>> _
>>> platform x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
>>> arch x86_64
>>> os linux-gnu
>>> system x86_64, linux-gnu
>>> status
>>> major 3
>>> minor 1.0
>>> year 2014
>>> month 04
>>> day 10
>>> svn rev 65387
>>> language R
>>> version.string R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>>> nickname Spring Dance
>>
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>> Dan Hyatt
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