[R] Installing cairo-package fails / solaris

[Reinhard Sy]

If you read my email carefully then: if I wrote Cairo I mean the R 
Package Cairo else I mean the Library cairo from carographics.org!


I need to use Cairo because we are creating a huge amount  of graphics 
in BATCH mode for reporting purpose. I think pango is not the solution I 
need for this but I could be wrong.
The matter to upgrade from R 2.7 to 2.12 on our production system is we 
need  more/other Database packages that we used before.


Reinhard



Am 10.02.2011 13:59, schrieb 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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