That call is from Cairo 1.2, so looks like our test FC5 box had a later version of the cairo libraries than the one pkg-config reported.
You should be able to build with --without-cairo until such a time as we can add a suitable configure test. Thank you for the report. On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Roger Peng wrote: > (Apologies, I meant to 'Reply to all' the first time but forgot). > > I built r44608 of R-devel with (I think) cairo support. At least, > that's what the configure script told me. In addition, > 'capabilities("cairo")' is TRUE. Calling X11(type = "Cairo") gives me > the error: > > Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded > In addition: Warning message: > In X11() : > unable to load shared library > '/home/rpeng/install/R-devel/lib64/R/modules//R_X11.so': > /home/rpeng/install/R-devel/lib64/R/modules//R_X11.so: undefined > symbol: cairo_image_surface_get_data > > > I figured I must be missing a library somewhere, but I'm not sure how > to track down which one. Any thoughts here? > > I'm on a FC5 system with: > > cairo-devel-1.0.4-1 > cairo-1.0.4-1 > cairo-1.0.4-1 > > and > > pango-1.12.4-4 > pango-devel-1.12.4-4 > pango-1.12.4-4 > > Also, I have > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] R-source]$ pkg-config --modversion pango > 1.12.4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] R-source]$ pkg-config --modversion cairo > 1.0.4 > > -roger > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> R-devel has new versions of the X11(), png() and jpeg() devices on >> Unix-alikes. The intention is that these are used identically to the >> previous versions (which remain available) but will produce higher-quality >> output with more features. >> >> Pros: >> >> Antialiasing of text and lines (can be turned off) but no blurring of >> fills. >> >> Buffering of the X11 display and fast repainting from a backing image. >> (The intention is to emulate the timer-based buffering of the windows() >> device in due course, but not for 2.7.0.) >> >> Ability to use translucent colours, including backgrounds, and produce >> partially transparent PNG files. >> >> Scalable text, including to sizes like 4.5 pt. This allows more accurate >> sizing on non-standard screen sizes (e.g. my home machine has a 90dpi >> 1650x1024 display whereas standard X11 fonts are set up for 75 or 100 >> dpi). >> >> Full support for UTF-8, so on systems with suitable fonts you can plot in >> many languages on a single figure (and this will work even in non-UTF-8 >> locales). The output should be locale-independent (unlike the current >> devices where even English text is rendered slightly differently in >> Latin-1 and UTF-8 locales). >> >> A utility function savePlot() to make a PNG/JPEG/TIFF copy of the current >> plot. >> >> The new png() and jpeg() devices do not require an X server to be running. >> >> Cons: >> >> Needs more software installed - cairo, pango and support packages (which >> on all the systems we have looked at are pulled in by the packages checked >> for). You will see something like >> >> Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS, cairo >> ^^^^^ >> if configure finds the software we are looking for. >> >> Slower under some circumstances (although on the test systems much faster >> than packages Cairo and cairoDevice). This will be particularly true for >> X11() with a slow connection between the machine running R and the X >> server. >> >> The additional software might not work correctly. >> >> >> The new versions are not currently the default, but can be made so by >> setting X11.options(type="Cairo"), e.g. as a load hook for package >> grDevices. I am using >> >> setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"), >> function(...) { >> grDevices::ps.options(horizontal=FALSE) >> if(getRversion() >= '2.7.0') grDevices::X11.options(type="Cairo") >> }) >> >> >> Please try these out and let us know how you get on. As a check, try the >> TestChars() examples in ?points - on one Solaris 10 system a few of the >> symbol font characters were incorrect. It worked on an FC5 system with >> >> auk% pkg-config --modversion pango >> 1.12.4 >> auk% pkg-config --modversion cairo >> 1.0.4 >> >> so the versions required are not all recent. >> >> Although these devices would in principle work on Mac OS X, neither cairo >> nor pango is readily available. We are working on other versions for >> Mac OS (X11 based on cairo/freetype, png/jpeg based on Quartz). >> >> There are also new svg() and tiff() devices. >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > > > -- > Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ > -- Brian D. 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