Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, leif wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> >> I just spent a while trying to figure out how to get R png graphics to >> work again in Sage-6.2rc0 on Ubuntu 14.04. Note that graphics worked >> fine with Sage-6.2beta1 on Ubuntu 12.04.Karl Dieter's many random >> posts

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-02 Thread leif
William Stein wrote: I just spent a while trying to figure out how to get R png graphics to work again in Sage-6.2rc0 on Ubuntu 14.04. Note that graphics worked fine with Sage-6.2beta1 on Ubuntu 12.04.Karl Dieter's many random posts around the web asking about this problem were helpful, thou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-02 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:48:50AM +, Francois Bissey wrote: > I know what you want to say Felix but once the pre-requisite are in place > we are more less performing all the install from a "sage shell" in which > sage-env is used to set the environment. a sage shell is not necessary to run th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-02 Thread Francois Bissey
I know what you want to say Felix but once the pre-requisite are in place we are more less performing all the install from a "sage shell" in which sage-env is used to set the environment. When spkg-install is at work, sage-env is read. At least that's how I understand it works. Francois On 2/05/2

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-02 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:12:34AM +1200, François Bissey wrote: > > We could put it into sage-env as well, but regarding how often that's > > called... > > I was actually thinking of feeding it to sage-env :) sage-env is a part of sage ("the library"). the environment for pkgconfig (and probably

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread François Bissey
On Fri, 02 May 2014 01:34:42 leif wrote: > François Bissey wrote: > > On Thu, 01 May 2014 15:05:03 Volker Braun wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:58:47 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > >>> > >>> That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread leif
François Bissey wrote: On Thu, 01 May 2014 15:05:03 Volker Braun wrote: On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:58:47 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) Where does it not work? My SLES11SP1 system on power7 rep

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread François Bissey
On Fri, 02 May 2014 11:04:35 François Bissey wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2014 15:05:03 Volker Braun wrote: > > On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:58:47 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > > > pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > > > > > > That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) > > > > W

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread François Bissey
On Thu, 01 May 2014 15:05:03 Volker Braun wrote: > On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:58:47 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > > pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > > > > That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) > > Where does it not work? My SLES11SP1 system on power7 reports: frb1

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:58:47PM +0200, leif wrote: > Felix Salfelder wrote: > >pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > > That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) if so (when?), how about fallback to something more complex *in case it does not*? reportedly, --debug d

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:25:52 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > $ pkg-config --debug 2>&1 | awk '/^Scanning /{print Pkgconf (the implementation that we are actually using in Sage) does not have a --debug switch. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:58:47 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > > pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) > Where does it not work? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. T

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread Volker Braun
It does have a configure option: $ ./configure --help `configure' configures pkgconf 0.9.4 to adapt to many kinds of systems. [...] --with-pkg-config-dir specify the place where pc files will be found On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:45:12 PM UTC+1, leif wrote: > > Well, we could just patch our p

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread leif
François Bissey wrote: On Thu, 01 May 2014 23:06:53 leif wrote: François Bissey wrote: On Thu, 01 May 2014 22:58:47 leif wrote: Felix Salfelder wrote: pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) Using configure is certainly a g

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread François Bissey
On Thu, 01 May 2014 23:06:53 leif wrote: > François Bissey wrote: > > On Thu, 01 May 2014 22:58:47 leif wrote: > >> Felix Salfelder wrote: > >>> pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > >> > >> That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) > > > > Using configure is certainly

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread leif
François Bissey wrote: On Thu, 01 May 2014 22:58:47 leif wrote: Felix Salfelder wrote: pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) Using configure is certainly a good option. +1, I like it. Sage's top-level 'configure' or pkg-

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread François Bissey
On Thu, 01 May 2014 22:58:47 leif wrote: > Felix Salfelder wrote: > > pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config > > That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) > > Using configure is certainly a good option. +1, I like it. Francois -- You received this message because you

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread leif
Felix Salfelder wrote: pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config That doesn't always work. (See my other post on how to get it.) -leif -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group.

[sage-devel] Re: R graphics and pkg-config (trac #15742)

2014-05-01 Thread leif
Francois Bissey wrote: That's a serious issue that Volker and I have overlooked when pushing for pkg-config. For those who don't the tipping point for inclusion was building recent matplotlib in OS X. matplotlib absolutely relies on using pkgconfig and all the previous work around failed with 1.3