[R-SIG-Mac] library not found for -lX11

[Jakson Alves de Aquino]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:43 AM, jochen laubrock
<jochen.laubrock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Works for me after additionally setting PKG_CPPFLAGS to point to the headers in Makevars
>
> PKG_LIBS=-L/usr/X11/lib -lX11
> PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/X11/include
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:18 , Jakson Alves de Aquino <jalvesaq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Jakson Alves de Aquino
>> <jalvesaq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I submitted a package to CRAN:
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vimcom/index.html
>>>
>>> It builds on Linux without warnings, but there is the following error
>>> on Mac OS X:
>>>
>>>    ld: library not found for -lX11
>>>    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>    make: *** [vimcom.so] Error 1
>>>    ERROR: compilation failed for package 'vimcom'
>>>
>>> The complete log is here:
>>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/vimcom-00install.html
>>>
>>> I know that I have to edit the src/Makevars file, but I don't know
>>> what I should put there and I don't have access to any machine running
>>> Mac OS X to make tests. Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> I've found this:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5841008/problem-in-linking-x11-in-mac-os-x
>>
>> So, it seems that a Makevars file with the following content would
>> solve the problem:
>>
>> PKG_LIBS=-L/usr/X11/lib -lX11
>>
>> I would be grateful if someone could try to build the package with the
>> above change in the src/Makevars since, as I have said, I can't make
>> tests.

I added PKG_CFLAGS because the code is in C.

I'm grateful to Jochen Laubrock for finding the solution and for
Federico Calboli for doing additional tests. The updated code is
available at:

https://github.com/jalvesaq/VimCom

Best regards,

-- 
Jakson Alves de Aquino
Federal University of Ceará
Social Sciences Department
www.lepem.ufc.br/aquino.php