[R] Installing cairo-package fails / solaris

[Prof Brian Ripley]

First, it is 'Cairo' (R is case sensitive), and this is wrong list 
(see the posting guide).

But in any case we can't help you as what you show is far from 
complete and this is not an R issue. Usually there are multiple 
versions of such libraries on a Solaris system: the problem is most 
likely the library paths.  Please ask your local Solaris help for 
assistance in sorting out what is a local problem.

(FWIW I can install package Cairo on Solaris if I use GNU make, an 
undeclared dependence.  But I wonder why you would want to do this 
when R's own graphics devices do almost everything Cairo does, often 
better since we use pango for font selection.)

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Reinhard Sy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed the latest version of libglib-2.0 (2.28.0) and cairo 1.10.2
>
> Then I have compiled R 2.12.1
>
> But when i  I try to install Cairo (1.4-6) I get the following
> unreferenced Symbol error:
>
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'Cairo', details:
>   call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
>   error: unable to load shared object
> '/opt/gnu/R-2.12.1/lib/R/library/Cairo/libs/Cairo.so':
>   ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file
> /opt/gnu/corelib-1.1_32/lib//libcairo.so.2: symbol
> FT_Library_SetLcdFilter: referenced symbol not found
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing '/opt/gnu/R-2.12.1/lib/R/library/Cairo'
>
>
>
> This all I have done on Solaris with the Sun Studio 11 Compiler
>
> When I configure cairo-1.10.2 I got:
>
> checking for FT_Library_SetLCDFilter.... yes
>
>
> Looks like it is anywhere on my system.
>
> But why R does not find it - Need I a special Environment variable to
> define the location of the library that contains the object ? But from
> which library this object is comming ?
>
> Thank for any hint
>
> Reinhard
>
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