On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 04:14:52PM +0800, David Crayford wrote: > FWIW, I tried to port R to z/OS but bailed when it required a Fortran > compiler. Has Fortran been ported to zLinux or is that a moot point due to > the the loosely coupled front-end - backend (optimizer) architecture of the > GCC compiler tool chain?
It's built from the normal gcc source, so yes. The Fortran compiler is written in C, so as long as the backend supports the target architecture we should be good to go. Anyway, R is shipped at least by Debian for z since ages. Kind regards Philipp Kern ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
