I wrote this post yesterday but for some reason it did not leave the outbox, so apologies to everyone since a mailer glitch apparently failed to prevent the waste of time of quite a few people. To follow up on the post - the autoconf macros to look for are AC_PATH_X and AC_PATH_XTRA.
Cheers, Simon On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Jakson Alves de Aquino wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I submitted a package to CRAN: >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vimcom/index.html >> >> It builds on Linux without warnings, but there is the following error >> on Mac OS X: >> >> ld: library not found for -lX11 >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> make: *** [vimcom.so] Error 1 >> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'vimcom' >> >> The complete log is here: >> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/vimcom-00install.html >> >> I know that I have to edit the src/Makevars file, but I don't know >> what I should put there and I don't have access to any machine running >> Mac OS X to make tests. Any help will be appreciated. >> > > The issue is not Mac specific at all. A couple points: you cannot assume X11 > because R can be built with or without X11 - in fact most recent OS X comes > without X11 so requiring it may limit the availability of your package. If > you really require X11 you'll have to declare that in your DESCRIPTION file. > Furthermore, R doesn't expose X11 flags to packages so you'll have to write a > configure test to determine proper X1 flags for your package. Just adding > -lX11 to Makevars doesn't work. See the autoconf documentation - there are > typically tests for X11 that can be re-used (R uses them, too). This may also > require special flags depending on the configuration (autoconf provides > --x-libraries and --x-includes for that). I don't know what you really need - > ideally, you should make any X11 code conditional on the availability of X11 > -- I don't know whether that is a basic requirement for your package or not, > so how to proceed from here may depend on that. > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Jakson Alves de Aquino >> Federal University of Ceará >> Social Sciences Department >> www.lepem.ufc.br/aquino.php >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
