Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Rene, My point was that it is not uncommon for cran modules to contain code that triggers access of the X server during the execution of 'R CMD install'. For example, we see this behavior with the analyzefmri, atelier, cairodevice, cluster fly, clustersim, fair, fmri, fso, gwidgetsrgtk2,

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday February 12 2015 11:58:33 Jack Howarth wrote: Jeremy, So I take it that it is impossible to use MacPort's Xvfb without abandoning the use of the Xquartz server in /opt/local/X11? That is rather unfortunate as my experience in packaging over 500 cran modules for fink was that at

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jack Howarth howarth.at.macpo...@gmail.com wrote: So I take it that it is impossible to use MacPort's Xvfb without abandoning the use of the Xquartz server in /opt/local/X11? That is Installing MacPorts' Xquartz via xorg-server does not require you to

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
On Feb 12, 2015, at 08:58, Jack Howarth howarth.at.macpo...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy, So I take it that it is impossible to use MacPort's Xvfb There is no port for Xvfb. That's the only issue. If you want it, I suggest you make a subport of xorg-server to provide it. without

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Jeremy, Exactly what needs to be passed to configure in the xorg-server Portfile to trigger Xvfb to build? I see... --enable-xvfb Build Xvfb server (default: yes) in the output of './configure --help' in the build directory but the config.log left behind only shows...

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
Try this: --disable-xquartz --disable-glx --disable-dri --disable-launchd --enable-kdrive --disable-xsdl --enable-xnest --enable-xvfb On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:13, Jack Howarth howarth.at.macpo...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy, Exactly what needs to be passed to configure in the xorg-server

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Jeremy, That gets me further. If I append On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jerem...@macports.org wrote: Try this: --disable-xquartz --disable-glx --disable-dri --disable-launchd --enable-kdrive --disable-xsdl --enable-xnest --enable-xvfb On Feb 12, 2015, at

Fwd: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jack Howarth howarth.at.macpo...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:33 PM Subject: Re: Xvfb MIA To: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jerem...@macports.org Jeremy, Okay. it is working now. I did a quick and dirty test by hacking the existing xorg

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Jeremy, I have posted proposed packaging for adding the missing xvfb-run script package to MacPorts at... https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46842 It still lacks a depends_run entry for the missing xvfb subport of xorg-server. Jack On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Jeremy

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-12 Thread Jack Howarth
Jeremy, So I take it that it is impossible to use MacPort's Xvfb without abandoning the use of the Xquartz server in /opt/local/X11? That is rather unfortunate as my experience in packaging over 500 cran modules for fink was that at least 26 needed to have R CMD INSTALL passed through xvfb-run

Re: Xvfb MIA

2015-02-11 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
Xvfb is part of xorg-server. MacPorts only installs the XQuartz DDX from the xorg-server and xorg-server-devel ports. On Feb 11, 2015, at 18:48, Jack Howarth howarth.at.macpo...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy, Where is the Xvfb binary hidden in MacPorts? It is part of Xquartz so I assume

xvfb MIA?

2013-01-09 Thread Connolly, Colm
Hi everybody, My apologies for asking this question here, but I've asked on macport-user and got no response. Does anybody know what happened to Xvfb? I'd previously got if from macports and it was working before the winter holidays, but after my most recent sudo port upgrade outdated on

Re: xvfb MIA?

2013-01-09 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Connolly, Colm wrote: Hi everybody, My apologies for asking this question here, but I've asked on macport-user and got no response. Does anybody know what happened to Xvfb? I'd previously got if from macports and it was working before the winter holidays,