Thanks Peter. From the config.log file, the issue appears to occur here at
the "*/home/fong/Cairo/conftest.c:28: undefined reference to
`cairo_create'"*


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configure:3631: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2
 -I/home/fong/usr/local/include/cairo   conftest.c -lz
-L/home/fong/usr/local/lib >&5
configure:3631: $? = 0
configure:3648: result: -lz
configure:3657: checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled
configure:3671: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2
 -I/home/fong/usr/local/include/cairo   conftest.c -lz
 -L/home/fong/usr/local/lib >&5
/tmp/ccIr2WlB.o: In function `main':
*/home/fong/Cairo/conftest.c:28: undefined reference to `cairo_create'*
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3671: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Cairo"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "cairo"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.3"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Cairo 1.3"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TIME_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Peter Langfelder <
peter.langfelder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Fong Chun Chan <fongchunchan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I don't have access to the package manager
> > unfortunately as I am working on a cluster where I don't have admin. So
> > everything has to installed into my ~/export
> > CAIRO_LIBS=-L${HOME}/usr/local/lib
> > export CAIRO_CFLAGS=-I${HOME}/usr/local/include
> > /local. I tried looking into homebrew/linuxbrew, but the gcc compiler
> > (4.1.2) is not suitable for linuxbrew and installing a new gcc compiler
> > isn't a simply endeavor from source.
>
> I see - in that case I think you are on the right track.
>
> >
> > I installed cairo from source specifically the
> > http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.16.tar.xz download. What is
> > this cairo-devel you are referring to? It seems to be something related
> to
> > using the package manager?
>
> If you install from source, you (usually) also get the development
> files (the content of cairo-devel) by default.
>
> >
> > In any case, your second point about the "-L for library directories,
> and -I
> > for
> > include directories" was actually useful. Rather than remove those lines
> (as
> > that didn't help), I modified my ~/.bashrc a bit (I am also limited in my
> > understanding paths)
> >
> > export CAIRO_LIBS=-L${HOME}/usr/local/lib
> > export CAIRO_CFLAGS=-I${HOME}/usr/local/include
> >
> > This actually got around that issue! But now I've run into another issue:
> >
> > checking for pkg-config... /home/fong/usr/local/bin/pkg-config
> > configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=-I/home/fong/usr/local/include/cairo
> > checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
> > checking cairo.h usability... yes
> > checking cairo.h presence... yes
> > checking for cairo.h... yes
> > checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes
> > checking for ATS font support in Cairo... no
> > configure: CAIRO_LIBS=-L/home/fong/usr/local/lib
> > checking for library containing deflate... -lz
> > checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled... configure: error:
> Cannot
> > compile a simple Cairo program. See config.log for details.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Cairo'
>
> If you look at the config.log file and post the releavant part (don't
> post the whole thing, it's huge), I (or R compiling experts) can try
> to help you more.
>
> Peter
>

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