R SIG Debian - Nov 2008 - Unable to install Cairo package

Hello:
I'm running R 2.7.1 in Antix (Mepis kernel but heavily debian based).  I
have installed libcairo2 (1.6.4-6.1). I tried installing the Cairo package since
I'm interested in generating some SVG graphs, and I got the following
message:

Only partial output (lines with no):

....
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
....
checking whether cairo_image_surface_get_format is declared... no
checking for FreeType support in cairo... yes
checking whether FreeType needs additional flags... no
checking wheter libjpeg works... yes
checking wheter libtiff works... no
configure: creating ./config.status
...
xlib-backend.c:34:74: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
xlib-backend.c: In function 'Rcairo_init_xlib':
xlib-backend.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function
'XrmUniqueQuark'
make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo/libs/*': No such
file or directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Cairo'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo'

I hope I provided enough of the output (and enough system information).  I
don't know what the "Rconn patch" is and perhaps that is the
problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Pedro L Vera

Vera, Pedro L. wrote on 11/14/2008 04:20 PM:
> Hello:
> I'm running R 2.7.1 in Antix (Mepis kernel but heavily debian based). 
I have installed libcairo2 (1.6.4-6.1). I tried installing the Cairo package
since I'm interested in generating some SVG graphs, and I got the following
message:
> 
> Only partial output (lines with no):
> 
> ....
> 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
> ....
> checking whether cairo_image_surface_get_format is declared... no
> checking for FreeType support in cairo... yes
> checking whether FreeType needs additional flags... no
> checking wheter libjpeg works... yes
> checking wheter libtiff works... no
> configure: creating ./config.status
> ...
> xlib-backend.c:34:74: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
> xlib-backend.c: In function 'Rcairo_init_xlib':
> xlib-backend.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function
'XrmUniqueQuark'
> make: *** [xlib-backend.o] Error 1
> chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo/libs/*': No
such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Cairo'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Cairo'
> 
> I hope I provided enough of the output (and enough system information).  I
don't know what the "Rconn patch" is and perhaps that is the
problem?
Not at all. In fact when I read the error messages, it says that it 
cannot find X11/Intrinsic.h, so that's a problem with Xlib which means 
you'll need to install the appropriate "-dev" debian package. For 
instance on Ubuntu hardy, I would shoot for installing xserver-xorg-dev.

But before you do anything else, I would recommend updating to R 2.8.0 
as 2.7.1 is so yesterday.

Jeff
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Pedro L Vera
> 
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