[R-SIG-Mac] installing rgl with the 3.0 RC

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/02/2013 10:46 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 13:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 13-02-05 8:07 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:
> >> Thanks for taking the time to look at this carefully Duncan.  I don't
> >> see the warning you mention, and I don't see the string R_pretty0 in
> >> the log either.  I'm appending right here in case there is something
> >> else you want to look at.  I restarted my computer but the result is
> >> the same.  I'm on OSX OS X 10.8.2 (12C60). Thanks, Bryan
> >
> > Okay, now you're getting a different error than you described before.
> > This one I think you can fix:  you need Freetype, and rgl needs to be
> > able to find it when you do the install.  Normally it does that using
> > the freetype-config utility, but you're not finding that:
> >
> > [deletions]
> >> checking for freetype-config... no
> >
> > I thought (from online readings) that Freetype should be available in a
> > standard OSX install, so I'm not sure why it's not working for you.  You
> > can disable the Cocoa (native) support by configuring with the configure
> > option
> >
> > install.packages("rgl", ..., configure.args="--disable-cocoa")
> >
> > and then you should be able to get the install to complete, but it might
> > be better to figure out why freetype-config isn't working for you.
>
> On Mountain Lion it's part of XQuartz which has a different layout than
> Apple's X11 had.  freetype-config is in /usr/X11/bin, and that is not by
> default on the path.  You need it for the X11 part too.
>
>
Thanks, that's helpful.   I'll see if an update to autoconf is enough to 
find it.  If not, I'll try a manual addition to configure.ac.

And then I'll try sending the update to CRAN...

Duncan Murdoch