Kasper, On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> This is just a FYI. > > If I use the cairo lib from the optional 3rd party libs from > http://R.research.att.com/libs/ and I compile R-2.13 (patched) from > scratch I do not get cairo support out of the box because I do not > have pkg-config. This is clearly stated in config.log but it was a > surprise to me. > > pkg-config is easy to install on Snow Leopard, but the newest version > 0.26 needs glib as well, whereas earlier versions (0.25 and earlier) > includes glib. Everything seems to work with pkg-config version 0.25. > thanks, that is a good observation. Some 3rd party libs require pkg-config and in fact some of them (including cairo) actually need tweaked .pc files to support static linking properly plus some stubs for system libraries. Ill see if I can package the CRAN setup into an easy bundle tomorrow which that I can put in the libs as well. Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
