Installing R 3.4.2 from ports doesn't find cairo.so lib

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 03:35:34PM +0200, Victor wrote:
> Under
> 
> FreeBSD metbsd 11.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Aug  9 11:17:49 UTC 2017    
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> I'm trying to install the new R 3.4.2 version from ports (/usr/ports/math/R) but when I issue
> 
> 
> make install
> ..............
> ..............
> ===>  Checking if R already installed
> ===>   Registering installation for R-3.4.2
> pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/math/R/work/stage/usr/local/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/cairo.so:No such file or directory
> *** Error code 74

Check your work tree if there actually *is* a cairo.so:

    cd /usr/ports/math/R/work/
    find . -type f -name cairo.so

> Can someone out there help me to fix the problem?

If cairo.so is not being built, I would suggest making a backup of the port Makefile.
Then edit the Makefile to change:

    CAIROPANGO_CONFIGURE_WITH=cairo

to
    CAIROPANGO_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=cairo

According to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, the ${opt}_CONFIGURE_WITH flag adds
“--with-${content}”. But from other options, it seems that R uses the
--enable/--disable style of options. That should be done with
${opt}_CONFIGURE_ENABLE.

Roland
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