On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > peter/brian: thank you for the help. i can now report that gentoo > amd64 can compile R just fine, too; it requires the f77 USE flag and a > gcc compiler rebuild first, though. I also went to gcc 3.4.1. my > segfault troubles earlier were caused by my use of f2c. > > suggestion: would it be possible to add a code snippet that tests > whether the user is trying to compile with f2c---and if so, bombs the > installation? (if "f77 --version == f2c" then die) I know the > problems are not R's fault, but it can percolate into R and it can > protect people like myself.
The thing is, it does work on some platforms -- I do test i686 RH8.0 (updated with gcc 3.4.1) from time to time and it looks like I tested 1.9.0 during beta test. So `make check' is the only reliable test. (I've just run the current R-devel to cross-check. It runs into the infinite-loop in LAPACK problem with gcc >= 3.4.0 though, with the same fix.) I suspect f2c on a 64-bit platform is a bad idea as int != long. We could detect that. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
