I guess I am not quite ready to call this closed. Gadfly installed successfully without dependency Cairo. But, of course, Cairo is needed for pdf and png output.
Cairo won't install. Now it gets stuck trying to install pixman. Looks like a bug in the make file. I won't bother pasting in the trace; I'll report over at Homebrew julia dev as recommended. Comments about too many dependencies and too much fragility apply. Julia needs a "native" graphics package (whatever "native" may mean...). On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 12:49:50 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Posted, but for some reason the post disappeared as I am new to the group. > > Ran BinDep.debug("Cairo") --nice feature!--to see if I could figure out > more. > > It suggests that dependencies that failed to build aren't needed on my > platform (which makes on wonder why any attempt to build them occurred...). > > Here is the output: > > *julia> **BinDeps.debug("Cairo")* > > *INFO: Reading build script...* > > The package declares 1 dependencies. > > - Library Group "cairo" > > - Library "png" (not applicable to this system) > > - Library "pixman" (not applicable to this system) > > - Library "ffi" (not applicable to this system) > > - Library "gettext" > > - Satisfied by: > > - Homebrew Bottles gettext at > /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/v0.4/Homebrew/deps/usr/lib/libintl.dylib > > - Homebrew Bottles gettext at > /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/v0.4/Homebrew/deps/usr/lib/libgettextpo.dylib > > - Providers: > > - Homebrew Bottles gettext > > - BinDeps.AptGet package gettext (can't provide) > > - BinDeps.Yum package gettext-libs (can't provide) > > - Autotools Build > > - Library "gobject" > > - Satisfied by: > > - Homebrew Bottles glib at > /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/v0.4/Homebrew/deps/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.dylib > > - Providers: > > - Homebrew Bottles glib > > - BinDeps.AptGet package libglib2.0-0 (can't provide) > > - BinDeps.Yum package glib2 (can't provide) > > - Autotools Build > > - Library "freetype" (not applicable to this system) > > - Library "fontconfig" (not applicable to this system) > > - Library "cairo" > > - Providers: > > - Homebrew Bottles cairo > > - BinDeps.AptGet package libcairo2 (can't provide) > > - BinDeps.Yum package cairo (can't provide) > > - Autotools Build > > - Library "pango" > > - Providers: > > - Homebrew Bottles pango > > - BinDeps.AptGet package libpango1.0-0 (can't provide) > > - BinDeps.Yum package pango (can't provide) > > - Autotools Build > > - Library "pangocairo" > > - Providers: > > - Homebrew Bottles pango > > - BinDeps.AptGet package libpango1.0-0 (can't provide) > > - BinDeps.Yum package pango (can't provide) > > - Autotools Build > > - Library "zlib" (not applicable to this system) > > > But, when I run using Cairo, it fails to precompile: > > > *julia> **using Cairo* > > *INFO: Precompiling module Cairo...* > > ERROR: LoadError: could not open file > /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/v0.4/Cairo/src/../deps/deps.jl > > in include at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > in include_from_node1 at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > in include at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > in include_from_node1 at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > [inlined code] from none:2 > > in anonymous at no file:0 > > in process_options at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > in _start at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > > while loading /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/v0.4/Cairo/src/Cairo.jl, in > expression starting on line 7 > > *ERROR: Failed to precompile Cairo to > /Users/lewislevinmbr/.julia/lib/v0.4/Cairo.ji* > > * in error at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib* > > * in compilecache at loading.jl:383* > > * in require at > /Applications/Julia-0.4.0-rc4.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib* > > > *The reason I want Cairo is for Gadfly. This is just one of several > Gadfly dependencies that fail to build. In my other post I pointed out > that this seems to become a serious general problem for the Julia > community. The deep dependency stacks of packages lead to many failures > that are hard to debug leading to a general impression of fragility. Since > there is not any reasonable "native" graphics package for Julia (though > PyPlot works quite well), we are thus compelled to the deep dependency > stacks. So, that problem needs to be solved. But, perhaps a higher > priority is native graphics.* >
