[Rd] Building R with Cairo

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/07/2013 20:35, Ben Warren wrote:
> All-
>
>       I have been hacking on an R 2.15 build on an Ubuntu 10.4 box, and I do
> not know how to debug R's error message regarding cairo "working".
>   Configuration completes without the expected additional capability (cairo)

We don't support obsolete versions of R. (Although there never was a 
'2.15', this seems to be 2.15.1, four versions old.  See the posting guide.)

You will need to look in config.log to see the details, but I expect the 
information in the 'R Installation and Administration Manual' covers 
this.  You really do want pango for decent font support.

>
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>    Source directory:          .
>>    Installation directory:    /app/vendor/R
>>    C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>>    Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
>>    C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>>    Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>>    Obj-C compiler:
>>    Interfaces supported:
>>    External libraries:        readline
>>    Additional capabilities:   PNG, NLS
>>    Options enabled:           shared R library, shared BLAS, R profiling
>>    Recommended packages:      yes
>> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals
>> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
>> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of vignettes and help
>> pages
>
>
> and it appears the relevant error is:
>
> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo and pango... no
>> checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... yes
>> checking whether cairo is >= 1.2 and works... no
>
>
> Does anyone have perspective on what flags/tests to run in debugging this?
>   Many thanks in advance for your perspective, and apologies for socializing
> such a minor problem; I am so very close, but have been banging my head on
> this for a while.
>
> Many thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> My build script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>> #Get apt looking in the right places
>> sudo apt-get update
>> #Give the box the tools it needs to manage software
>> sudo apt-get install -y curl make pkg-config g++
>> #Install the dependencies for the packages below
>> sudo apt-get install -y freetype* libxml2 libxml2-dev libpng12-dev gfortran
>>
>> sudo mkdir -p /app
>> sudo chown -R vagrant /app
>> INSTALL_LOCATION=/app/vendor
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/lib
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/include
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/compiled
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/vulcan
>>
>> cd $INSTALL_LOCATION/include
>> curl
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz-o fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz
>> tar -zxf fontconfig-2.9.0.tar.gz
>> cd fontconfig-2.9.0
>> ./configure --prefix $INSTALL_LOCATION
>> make
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/include/fontconfig
>> cp -v fontconfig/fcfreetype.h fontconfig/fcprivate.h
>> fontconfig/fontconfig.h $INSTALL_LOCATION/include/fontconfig/
>> make install
>> make clean
>> cd -
>>
>> cd $INSTALL_LOCATION/include
>> curl http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.26.0.tar.gz -o
>> pixman-0.26.0.tar.gz
>> tar -zxf pixman-0.26.0.tar.gz
>> cd pixman-0.26.0/
>> ./configure --prefix $INSTALL_LOCATION
>> make
>> mkdir -p $INSTALL_LOCATION/include/pixman-1
>> cp -v pixman/pixman.h pixman/pixman-version.h
>> $INSTALL_LOCATION/include/pixman-1/
>> make install
>> make clean
>> cd -
>>
>> cd $INSTALL_LOCATION/include
>> curl http://www.cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.10.0.tar.gz -o
>> cairo-1.10.0.tar.gz
>> tar -zxf cairo-1.10.0.tar.gz
>> cd cairo-1.10.0/
>> # Tell Cairo where fontconfig and pixman are
>> # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_LOCATION/lib  # This does not do it.
>> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_LOCATION/lib/pkgconfig
>> export FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS="-I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/include/fontconfig
>> -I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/include"
>> export FONTCONFIG_LIBS="-L${INSTALL_LOCATION}/lib -lpixman-1"
>> export pixman_CFLAGS="-I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/include/pixman-1
>> -I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/include"
>> export pixman_LIBS="-L${INSTALL_LOCATION}/lib -lfontconfig"
>> ./configure --prefix $INSTALL_LOCATION/cairo
>> make
>> make install
>> make clean
>> cd -
>> # echo "******************************************"
>>
>> curl http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.1.tar.gz -o
>> R-2.15.1.tar.gz
>> tar -zxf R-2.15.1.tar.gz
>> cd R-2.15.1/
>> # Tell R where Cairo is
>> export MAIN_CFLAGS="-I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/include
>> -I${INSTALL_LOCATION}/cairo/include"
>> export LDFLAGS="-L${INSTALL_LOCATION}/lib -L${INSTALL_LOCATION}/cairo/lib"
>> export
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${INSTALL_LOCATION}/cairo/lib/pkgconfig:${INSTALL_LOCATION}/lib/pkgconfig"
>> ./configure --prefix $INSTALL_LOCATION/R --enable-R-shlib --without-x
>> --with-cairo --with-libpng
>> make
>> make docs
>> make install
>> cd -
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