You are 8 days behind the times -- take a look at the current R-devel. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Diman Todorov wrote:
> Dear Dirk, > I have had the exactly same problem like Ivo and his solution worked for me. > Hence the USE=f77 flag is NOT a typo but a Gentoo quirk. > As far as modifying the configure script is concerned, I believe that it is certainly > possible to perform said check (if 'f77 --version == f2c' then die) > only on x86_64 platforms. > And I'd argue it is f2c's fault. AMD64 linux distros have been known to have > troubles of this sort > especially as far as compilers are concerned. > > > regards > Diman Todorov > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:59:14AM -0700, [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 > > (Err, no such thing exists: either g77, f2c or the fort77 wrapper for f2c.) > > > 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 > > Bad idea. > > My Debian configuration, driven from a single configuration, is used on > about a dozen different platforms. One of these, m68k, has a continually > been problematic with g77, which forces us to use f2c. > > And despite your fears, that is working swimmingly for R as well as the by > now 40 or so CRAN packages that are in the distro too, incl the ones like > VR, Hmisc/Design, tseries, ... that contain Fortran code. > > > problems are not R's fault, but it can percolate into R and it can > > protect people like myself. > > I'd argue that it wasn't f2c's fault, but maybe an unlucky mix of parts of > your toolchain (gcc, binutils, libc, ...). > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- 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
