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

[Jochen]

Just a guess, but maybe XCode and its command line tools need to be installed?


Am 29.11.2012 um 18:09 schrieb Jakson Alves de Aquino <jalvesaq at gmail.com>:

> 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
> 
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