Hi,
> capabilities()
jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl
TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE
and here's the complete thing as a gist (including the EasyConfig):
* https://gist.github.com/serverhorror/14373ea4ca9111423f5d
/Martin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:47 AM Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a good moment to ask all others (who rely upon libpng as a dep for
> R) to report,
> if they have the png capability TRUE - if so, kindly supply your
> easyconfig, somewhere!
>
> On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Berri, Stefano <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I now have these "capabilities" in R-3.2.1
> >
> >> capabilities()
> > jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua
> > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
> > http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv
> > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
> > NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl
> > TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
>
> More generally, it would be great to listen by others, on how to switch on
> any other missing capability; for the people who care about them - of
> course.
>
> > I build with
> > configopts = "--with-lapack --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-blas
> --with-pic --enable-threads --with-x --enable-R-shlib"
> > but as I am connecting with putty, it shows X11 FALSE
> >
> > NOTES:
> > I still could not fix the libpng issue properly. To solve it, I removed
> dependency on libpng (rely on the system libs, I guess) but added
> > ('zlib', '1.2.8') or installing some packages would have failed.
>
> The fact that the OS-provided libpng yields the capability but,
> *not* the EB-provided one, yes that’s unexpected and calls for more
> scrutiny.
>
> > Also, since R-3.2.x, if I tried install.packages() I got an error
> saying "internet routines cannot be loaded". I solved it adding dependency
> to
> > ('cURL', '7.43.0'),
> > note that I now have libcurl capabilities. I found curl to be a constant
> source of pain with R. Hopefully we should be sorted now.
> > Interestingly, previous versions of R (i.e. R-3.1.2) did not have any
> issues with whatever cURL we had. Maybe we should explicitly set
> dependencies on cURL.
>
> Quite clearly, this calls for one more dependency to be defined - as
> regards 3.2.x;
> cURL easyconfigs are already there.
>
> Fotis
>
>
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