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

Federico Calboli f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Nov 29 18:59:16 CET 2012 

On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:49, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 29/11/2012 17:37, Federico Calboli wrote:
>> On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:29, Jochen <jochen.laubrock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just a guess, but maybe XCode and its command line tools need to be installed?
>> 
>> 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'.

As I am not the package author (I just volunteered to test if it builds on OS X, and in particular on a machine that does have pkg-config installed through MacPorts) I fail to see why *I* should have to courtesy to read the manual.

BW

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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.
>>>> 
>>>>> 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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