Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I have built R 2.1.1 on Solaris and OSF1, and used the operating >>>system's native compiler set. This worked fine. However, when I try >>>using install.packages() it insists on using g77 etc., which doesn't >>>exist on those systems. >>> >>>How can I specify which compilers to use? What about other >>>compile-time options like LDFLAGS etc.? >>> >>>NB! Please include me in the CC list, since I'm not a mailinglist >>>member. >>> >>>PS. I really like perl's approach to module building. When building >>>perl modules, it defaults to the same compilers as perl was initially >>>built with. This seems like a sane approach also for R IMHO. >> >>Indeed, R is pretty sane. Fine tuning is conveniently carried out by >>editing the config.site file in the root source directory; LDFLAGS are on >>line 138 of the released 2.1.1 source. Which particular packages have you >>found showing this behaviour? > > > Hmm.. > > - The following use correct c/c++ compilers, but fail to recognize > this as as Solaris system and uses -fPIC instead of -KPIC for > shared objects. They also use other gcc-specific options like > '-O2': > > RandomFields > geoR > geoRglm > rgl > > > - The following packages try g77 without first checking if it > exists. I did not specify the F77 variable when compiling R, since > it found f77 by itself. If all I need is to re-compile with the F77 > variable set to 'f77', I won't mind. > > akima > sm > spatstat > splancs > > There are problably more.. these two problem seem to be consistent > across modules, but I can't be sure.
So these are package related problems. Can you please let the corresponding package authors know and ask them to fix their packages. Uwe Ligges > Cheers, > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html