Followup with the specific issue in our most recent (non-posted, as of yet) attempts on a certain box. We now have xorg-dev, libcairo-dev, and Xwindows.h and libpng (as below) on this machine, but R is not compiling with support for any of these things.
Once again, any help knowing *exactly* what to pass to the configuration script or anything else would be *greatly* appreciated. We are planning to use R in Sage on several occasions with this machine this summer if we can get this going (see http://www.maa.org/prep/2011/sage.html). ++++ R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: . Installation directory: /home/sageserver/sage/local C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/sageserver/sage/local/include -L/home/sageserver/sage/local/lib/ Fortran 77 compiler: sage_fortran -g -O2 C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 Fortran 90/95 compiler: sage_fortran -g -O2 Obj-C compiler: Interfaces supported: X11 External libraries: readline, BLAS(ATLAS), LAPACK(generic) Additional capabilities: PNG, NLS Options enabled: shared R library, R profiling Recommended packages: yes However: > capabilities() jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel