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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 29/11/2012 17:37, Federico Calboli wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:29, Jochen <jochen.laubrock at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just a guess, but maybe XCode and its command line tools need to be installed?
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> I don't know for third parties, but I do have the latest XCode + command line tools installed (and I would need them for MacPorts in the first place).  As by my previous email that's obviously not enough.

Correct, pkg-config is not part of Xcode.  It is also not a good way to 
find out where X11 is.  I did suggest following R, not a randomly chosen 
package for a different piece of software (GTK+, sic).

As ever, this is covered in the R manuals, which it seems none of you 
have the courtesy to read.  Search for pkg-config in 'Writing R Extensions'.



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