[R-sig-Fedora] [R] Failure to load X11 module in Fedora 13.

[Carlo Tambuatco]

On 07/06/2010 03:15 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 03:01 PM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
>
>    
>> This is what ls revealed about my /usr/local/lib directory:
>>
>> total 4344
>> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    4096 Jun 19 17:04 blender
>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 Jun 15 17:15 codecs
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   94132 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.a
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     822 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.la
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      18 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so ->
>> libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      18 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so.2 ->
>> libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   74687 Jun 15 17:04 libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2486916 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.a
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     824 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.la
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so ->
>> libfreetype.so.6.3.8
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      20 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so.6 ->
>> libfreetype.so.6.3.8
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1765321 Jun 19 06:29 libfreetype.so.6.3.8
>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 Jun 19 06:29 pkgconfig
>>      
> This is your problem. R (well, the X11 part of it anyways) is looking
> for libfreetype, finding the copy in /usr/local (I'm guessing blender
> put it there) which doesn't match the system libfontconfig.so and things
> explode from there.
>
> The simplest solution would be for you to delete libfreetype* from
> /usr/local/lib, although, there is a chance that whatever third party
> app put those library files in /usr/local/lib might stop working.
>
> ~spot
>
>
>    
You're saying I have to choose between running Blender and running X11() 
in R?
Is there a way to maybe create symlinks from where X11() expects to find 
the libfreetype to where libfreetype actually is to get both Blender and 
R X11() to play well together?