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

[Jakson Alves de Aquino]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 29-11-2012, at 17:16, Jakson Alves de Aquino wrote:
>> I adapted the code from cairoDevice package. It was just a matter
>> of replacing gtk with x11 and I hope that now it will build on any
>> unix that have X installed.
>>
>>    https://github.com/jalvesaq/VimCom/
>
> Using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
>
> Experiment 1
> ----------------
> [.../vimcom]: R CMD check vimcom-master
> * using log directory '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * checking for file 'vimcom-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'vimcom' version '0.9-5'
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> Package suggested but not available: 'knitr'

You can also install the 'knitr' package.

> The suggested packages are required for a complete check.
> Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment
> variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value.
>
> Experiment 2
> ----------------
> [.../vimcom]: export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=0
> [.../vimcom]: R CMD check vimcom-master
> * using log directory '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 (64-bit)
> * using session charset: UTF-8
> * checking for file 'vimcom-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'vimcom' version '0.9-5'
> * checking package namespace information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE
> Package suggested but not available for checking: 'knitr'
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking if there is a namespace ... OK
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'vimcom' can be installed ... ERROR
> Installation failed.
> See '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
>
> Contents .../00install.out
>
> * installing *source* package 'vimcom' ...
> checking for pkg-config... no
> ERROR: Cannot find pkg-config.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'vimcom'

pkg-config is an application that knows what should be the values of
CPPFLAGS and LIBS. Sorry, but I don't know how you can get it
correctly installed on Mac OS X.

> pkg-config is not available standard on Mac OS X.
> It is probably available on the Mac binary package machine.
>
> I don't think you may assume that an X11 installation on Mac OS X
> has been registered with pkg-config or how you call that.
>
> Your method is not foolproof.
> Experts will have to enlighten you.

You are right, and I'm waiting for the experts advice!

Thanks for testing!

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