[R-SIG-Mac] [External] Re: [External] Please test R 4.0.4 RC

[Simon Urbanek]

Duncan,

not really - this is why the XQuartz betas are such a disaster - they replace libraries with incompatible versions (under same file name) - and even remove some libraries, thus breaking anything that was compiled against either version. If you downgrade, you have to re-compile anything you compiled against the beta. That is probably one of the lesser evils since you can't expect anything to be forwards-compatible.

In theory, you could detect the version using otool - that's what X11() is doing to find whether XQuartz is present, but it only works for users that have dev tools installed, so not a good idea in general.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Feb 14, 2021, at 11:32 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 13/02/2021 4:54 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> As mentioned earlier, the issue is likely that your X11-auto-launch is not working. You can start X11 (=XQuartz) yourself and set DISPLAY=:0 as you would on any unix system or start X11 with X11(":0")
>> [personally, I hate that auto-launch "feature" since it tries to start XQuartz even if you don't want it].
> 
> Thanks.  Here's another datum:  I did my last build of rgl with the beta XQuartz installed.  I'm now back to 2.7.11 and I get this when I try to start rgl:
> 
> > library(rgl)
> Error in dyn.load(dynlib) :
>  unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so':
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so, 6): Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so
>  Reason: Incompatible library version: rgl.so requires version 11.0.0 or later, but libX11.6.dylib provides version 10.0.0
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘rgl’:
> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rgl', details:
>  call: NULL
>  error: 	Loading rgl's DLL failed.
> 	This build of rgl depends on XQuartz, which you can download from xquartz.org.
> 
> So it appears they updated the version of libX11.6.dylib, and rgl is asking for the wrong one.
> 
> Is there some way for me to request a particular version during my build, or at least detect that the wrong version is installed?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>> On Feb 14, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I tried this.  It made no difference.  Both before and after running
>>> sudo xcode-select —install
>>> I ran (in both cases, in a brand new *R* sessio n)
>>> 
>>>> X11()
>>> xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My prior was that the xcode call was irrelevant is that X11() using XQuart 8.0.3beta
>>> worked with intel R_4.0.3 on the Mac M1.
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el using lisse.na>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2021 3:33 AM
>>> To: Simon Urbanek; R-SIG-Mac; Richard M. Heiberger
>>> Cc: el using lisse.NA
>>> Subject: [External] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [External] Please test R 4.0.4 RC
>>> 
>>> that has nothing to do with Xquartz but means you need to install the Command line tools
>>> 
>>> sudo xcode-select —install
>>> 
>>> —
>>> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone
>>> On 13 Feb 2021, 06:13 +0200, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>, wrote:
>>> Using the intel R_4.0.4RC on the Mac M1.
>>> 
>>> Based on your recommendation I reinstalled XQuartz 2.7.11 instead of the 8.0.3beta.
>>> X11() now does not work at all.
>>> 
>>> X11()
>>> xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
>>> C-c C-c C-c C-c
>>> 
>>> Force-Killing XQuartz from the Activity Monitor doesn't help.
>>> I have to Force-kill the R process.
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 6:50 PM
>>> To: R-SIG-Mac
>>> Subject: [External] [R-SIG-Mac] Please test R 4.0.4 RC
>>> 
>>> Dear macOS useRs,
>>> 
>>> please test the latest R 4.0.4 RC builds from
>>> 
>>> https://mac.r-project.org/
>>> 
>>> especially if you are running macOS Big Sur. The known issues introduced by Big Sur have been fixed, but I cannot replicate nor test the spurious touchbar warning.
>>> 
>>> Also a reminder to *not* install XQuartz betas even if XQuartz ask you to - they are betas for a reason (=unstable) and break things.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>> 
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