Xvfb MIA

[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 as those trigger accesses to the X server.
         Jack

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
<jeremyhu at macports.org> wrote:
> 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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