R help - Aug 2008 - Cairo installation process fails "compile a simple Cairo program" step

Hi,

I am having trouble getting Cairo properly installed for R. The details (what I
tried, what I got, and my system info) are below. Any ideas would be
appreciated.

Hugh Rand


How I tried to install it:

install.packages('Cairo',,'http://www.rforge.net/')?


What the message was:


* Installing *source* package 'Cairo' ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C
compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for
suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C
compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for
gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C
preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for grep that handles long lines and
-e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header
files... yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking
for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h...
yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for
strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking
sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for
sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for an ANSI
C-conforming const... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGSchecking 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/apps/freetype/current/lib
-L/apps/fontconfig/current/lib -L/apps/pixman/current/lib
-L/apps/cairo/current/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'
** Removing '/apps/R/R-2.7.0/library/Cairo'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpWoXEcO/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("Cairo", , "http://www.rforge.net/") :
  installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status


We compile R under Red-hat linux. The various bits of system information are:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
base
>
-bash-3.00$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)


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