[R] problem installing cairo on freebsd

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,


I am trying to install the cairo package on FreeBSD and receiving an  
error to do with Makevars - (I'm not very good at this stuff) so here  
is my various bits of information. I guess this is a problem with a  
missing library, but I have just been through a lot of grief trying to  
get png and jpeg to work (they do now work!), so I'm not sure where to  
go for this.

R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)

on

FreeBSD server.ausvet.com.au 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sat  
Jun  7 13:33:54 EST 2008     ben at server.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ 
AUSVET_CUSTOM  i386

with :

cairo-1.8.8,1 and
p5-Cairo-1.061

using :

install.packages("Cairo")

and I get this:

trying URL 'http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/contrib/Cairo_1.4-5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 75318 bytes (73 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 73 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'Cairo' ...
checking for gcc... gcc43 -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc43 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc43 -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cpp
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo... yes
checking for configurable backends... gnome-config: not found
gnome-config: not found
cairo cairo-ft cairo-pdf cairo-png cairo-ps cairo-xlib cairo-xlib- 
xrender
configure: CAIRO_CFLAGS=-D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/ 
usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/ 
include
checking if R was compiled with the RConn patch... no
checking cairo.h usability... yes
checking cairo.h presence... yes
checking for cairo.h... yes
checking for PNG support in Cairo... yes
checking for ATS font support in Cairo... no
configure: CAIRO_LIBS=-pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype - 
lfontconfig -lpng -lm -lz -lXrender -lcairo -lX11
checking for library containing deflate... none required
checking whether Cairo programs can be compiled... yes
checking whether cairo_image_surface_get_format is declared... no
checking for FreeType support in cairo... yes
checking whether FreeType needs additional flags... no
checking wheter libjpeg works... yes
checking wheter libtiff works... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
config.status: creating src/cconfig.h
** libs
"Makevars", line 2: Need an operator
"Makevars", line 4: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Cairo'
* Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/Cairo'

The downloaded packages are in
	'/tmp/RtmpcIvbUg/downloaded_packages'
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("Cairo") :
   installation of package 'Cairo' had non-zero exit status

cheers

Ben



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