Hi Pieter, thanks for this work. I'll try it later.
> For libpng-1.6.17 and freetype-2.6 I had to create new easyconfigs and > patches as these libs contain bugs and some R packages fail to compile with > the plain vanilla libs. > I'll create a pull request for these new easyconfigs, but it will take > some time before these are available from the latest and greatest EasyBuild > release... I have also stumbled on the problems introduced by easybuild and libpng. For reasons I don't understand there is no png capabilities when I build R with easybuild (despite the --with-cairo --with-libpng flags). I have actually discovered that, on my system, removing dependency to libpng restores png capability (??) but then there are other problems... Can you tell me more about fixing that issue, please? If we cannot print to png, nobody in my group will ever care to use an R deployment built with easybuild. Also, I noticed that you have --with-x=no option. Is it because you don't need plotting to X or is there a reason for that? Thanks a lot Stefano
