I have PNG capability now, but I needed to add libz as a dependency to the R easyconfig. I also changed it to with-x
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:47 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 > > > -- > echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ > | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum > > > > > > > >
