[R-SIG-Mac] problem with X11() after install of 2.7.0.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

FWIW, we have a machine using XQuartz 2.2, and both my own build of R and 
the original CRAN release of 2.7.0 work with it.  (I am not differing from 
Simon's advice -- that the CRAN release works is a bonus.)

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jean Thioulouse wrote:

> At 11:49 AM -0400 4/30/08, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 05:32:45PM +0200, Jean Thioulouse wrote:
>>>> At 10:55 AM -0400 4/30/08, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>>> Ancient system? As a very first step for your own good I'd recommend
>>>>> updating your system which is way out of date (the current version
>>>>> Tiger is 10.4.11). Then if the issue persists, please report your
>>>>> full sessionInfo() and machine used. The above works without
>>>>> problems on both 10.5.2 and 10.4.11 (Mac Pro and iMac).
>>>>
>>>> I had the same (?) problem after upgrading to R 2.7.0 on a MacPro with
>>>> MacOS 10.5.2, using XQuartz 2.2.0.1 instead of Apple X11. I didn't try
>>>> to dig it as I decided to start using the quartz device (very good job)
>>>> instead.
>>>>
>>>> The x11 device has no problem with tcltk though, and even with tkrplot.
>>>>
>>>> Jean
>>>
>>> thanks for this information. so at least there seems to be a
>>> reall issue (though I'm still under Tiger  wit  Apple's  X11
>>> and I don't see bus errors )
>>>
>>
>> Well that above doesn't say anything in that respect - the CRAN
>> binary is meant to work with Apple's X11 only. If you use anything
>> else, you're on your own and possibly have to compile your own
>> version. For example if you have a different version of fontconfig
>> it is enough to crash since fontconfig changed the internal format
>> of the cache.
>
> I am not using CRAN binaries.
>
> Jean
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