[R-SIG-Mac] Fwd: rgl 0.81 in R 2.8 on Mac OS X

[Kenneth Knoblauch]

Just a followup.  With the updated CRAN R 2.8.0 binaries,
and installing the binary builds of the packages, all works
fine again.  I'd still like to track down the source of
the problem discussed at the beginning of this thread (at
the bottom of this mail), if anyone has some suggestions,
however.

Thank you.

Ken


Quoting Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:

> Kenneth Knoblauch wrote:
>> Hi again, Duncan,
>>
>> One more piece of information that seems relevant.  I said that
>> it rgl compiled by which I meant that it got to the end of
>> the compilation and left an rgl package in my library directory,
>> but looking back through the compilation, I found the following
>> error which does seem to be pertinent, if that might help...
>>
>> mkdir -p AGL
>> mv AGL/* .
>> MAKINGAGL=TRUE /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R CMD   
>>  SHLIB  -o aglrgl.so *.cpp *.c
>> mv: rename AGL/* to ./*: No such file or directory
>> make: [aglrgl.so] Error 1 (ignored)
>>
>
> That's not a problem -- the build script builds 2 versions of some
> files, and the first time through they don't exist, so you get that
> error, which is ignored.
>
> The problem is with the Freetype library, which is being detected at
> build time but which is not available at run time.  All I can say is
> that it works for me, I don't know why it doesn't work for you.  (I'm
> on OS X 10.4.11, you're probably on 10.5?)  You can try to configure
> rgl without Freetype by using --disable-ftgl as a configure option, i.e.
>
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--disable-ftgl ...
>
> but I don't know how to get it to work.
>
> I've copied this to R-sig-mac; maybe someone there can suggest a fix.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>> Thank you.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from ken.knoblauch at inserm.fr -----
>>     Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:06:21 +0200
>>     From: Kenneth Knoblauch <ken.knoblauch at inserm.fr>
>> Reply-To: Kenneth Knoblauch <ken.knoblauch at inserm.fr>
>>  Subject: rgl 0.81 in R 2.8 on Mac OS X
>>       To: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>
>> Hi Duncan,
>>
>> I was able to install rgl with no problems from source
>> on R 2.8 but get an error when I try to load it:
>>
>>
>>> library(rgl)
>>>
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>    unable to load shared library
>> '/Users/knoblauch/Library/R/2.8/library/rgl/libs/i386/aglrgl.so':
>>
>> dlopen(/Users/knoblauch/Library/R/2.8/library/rgl/libs/i386/aglrgl.so,
>> 6): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
>>    Referenced from:
>> /Users/knoblauch/Library/R/2.8/library/rgl/libs/i386/aglrgl.so
>>    Expected in: dynamic lookup
>>
>> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'rgl'
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'rgl'
>>
>> The shared library is there:
>>
>> [Macintosh-6:rgl/libs/i386] knoblauch% pwd
>> /Users/knoblauch/Library/R/2.8/library/rgl/libs/i386
>> [Macintosh-6:rgl/libs/i386] knoblauch% ls
>> aglrgl.so*  rgl.so*
>>
>> Here is some further information:
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>>
>> locale:
>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.8.0
>>
>> Any ideas?  Please don't slay the messenger.  Hope that all is well
>> otherwise.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>



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