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

[Federico Calboli]

On 29 Nov 2012, at 16:49, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 
> Contents .../00install.out
> 
> * installing *source* package 'vimcom' ...
> checking for pkg-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find pkg-config.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'vimcom'
> * removing '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck/vimcom'
> 
> 
> Install experiment
> -------------------------
> [.../vimcom]: R CMD INSTALL vimcom-master
> * installing to library '/Users/berendhasselman/Library/R/2.15/library'
> * installing *source* package 'vimcom' ...
> checking for pkg-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find pkg-config.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'vimcom'
> * removing '/Users/berendhasselman/Library/R/2.15/library/vimcom'
> 
> pkg-config is not available standard on Mac OS X.
> It is probably available on the Mac binary package machine.

well I do have pkg-config (from MacPorts):

$ which pkg-config
/opt/local/bin/pkg-config

which is in my $PATH

$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/julia:/usr/local/MacGPG/bin:/usr/texbin

additionally 

$ pkg-config --exists x11

exits without saying/doing anything, which I presume means all is ok, as by Unix tradition.  Unfortunately I do have the same issue:

* installing *source* package ‘vimcom’ ...
checking for pkg-config... no
ERROR: Cannot find pkg-config.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘vimcom’

I am not clear why pkg-config should not be successfully called by the build.

BW

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