This is not done by 'R'. You are quoting a configure script written by
the package author: you need to take this up with him.
Well-written configure scripts (including R's) consult an environment
variable for the path to pkg-config, PKGCONF for R and it seems also for
showtext.
R does not set the PATH. If perchance by 'R' you mean 'R.app' then see
its FAQ, e.g. sections 3.3 and 10.13.
On 28/04/2015 22:35, Tom Hopper wrote:
Hello. I have a couple of packages---sysfonts and showtext—that I’m trying to
update from source. I’ve successfully installed other packages from source in
the past with no problems, but these packages have dependencies on libpng and
freetype2, and the build is failing because pkg-config cannot find the
libraries. Most likely, I previously installed these from binary, but the
binaries have not been updated.
With Xcode, Fink and MacPorts (DarwinPorts) installed, I have at least three
copies of pkg-config installed, and two copies each of libpng and freetype2.
Cleaning up that mess is beyond my terminal skills. Unfortunately, R is using
the one version of pkg-config that refuses to find any copy of libpng or
freetype2. You can see the errors in the build process below my signature, as
well as the output of sessionInfo().
I believe that if I could point R to one of the other copies of pkg-config
(e.g. the version in /opt/local/bin/ instead of the version in
/usr/local/bin/), then this problem would clear itself up. However, I cannot
figure out how to do this. My search skills must be failing me, because I
cannot figure out where R is getting its PATH variable from. I would expect
it’s the global Mac OS PATH variable, but R and Terminal are calling different
copies of pkg-config, so I’m thinking R is creating its own PATH variable. For
example, “which pkg-config” in the Terminal and “system(“which pkg-config”)” in
R return different paths (“/opt/local/bin/pkg-config” and
“usr/local/bin/pkg-config” respectively).
Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
Tom
* installing *source* package ‘showtext’ ...
** package ‘showtext’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for gcc... clang
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether clang accepts -g... yes
checking for clang option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking whether pkg-config could find zlib... yes
checking whether pkg-config could find libpng... no
checking whether pkg-config could find freetype2... no
checking for png_init_io in -lpng... no
****************************************************
Error: libpng not found.
If you have not installed libpng, you can download
the source code from http://www.libpng.org/
In Debian/Ubuntu-like systems, you can use
"sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev"
to install libpng
For rpm-based systems, try
"sudo yum install libpng-devel"
****************************************************
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘showtext’
* removing ‘/Users/tomhopper/Library/R/3.2/library/showtext’
* restoring previous ‘/Users/tomhopper/Library/R/3.2/library/showtext’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘showtext’ had non-zero exit status
Output of sessionInfo():
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats methods base
other attached packages:
[1] tidyr_0.2.0 dplyr_0.4.1 ggplot2_1.0.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.11.5 digest_0.6.8 assertthat_0.1 MASS_7.3-40
grid_3.2.0 plyr_1.8.2
[7] gtable_0.1.2 DBI_0.3.1 magrittr_1.5 scales_0.2.4
reshape2_1.4.1 proto_0.3-10
[13] tools_3.2.0 stringr_0.6.2 munsell_0.4.2 parallel_3.2.0
colorspace_1.2-6
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