[cairo] error loading Cairo on R

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:28:47PM -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> 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.

Yeah.  I'm thinking maybe after we get the next release out the door if
we might do some spring cleaning.
 
> 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
> >>
> >>--
> >>Dan Hyatt
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> >>Washington University School of Medicine
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> >>
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