Xvfb MIA

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at macports.org
Wed Feb 11 19:49:48 PST 2015


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.macports at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jeremy,
>       Where is the Xvfb binary hidden in MacPorts? It is part of
> Xquartz so I assume we must have it hidden in one of the xorg
> packages. I ask because I need to leverage Xvfb and the xvfb-run
> script borrowed from fink in order to update the rNMR package to 1.1.8
> (which attempts to access the X11 server during the R CMD INSTALL
> step). In fink, we saw the same issue but solved it by passing the R
> command in question to the modified Debian xvfb-run script. Assuming
> that MacPorts has Xvfb buried in some package, I can package up the
> xvfb-run script for general use.
>        Jack
> <xvfb-run>



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