>>>>> "AndyL" == Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:02:26 -0400 writes:
>> From: Brian Ripley
>>
>> The first thing to ascertain is that R will actually
>> build on such a machine -- there have been a lot of
>> reports of failure on AIX, and no recent reports of
>> success.
AndyL> According to our AIX sysadmin, R-1.9.1 actually
AndyL> compiles a lot more cleanly than R-1.8.1 and prior.
AndyL> I take it the recent reports of difficulties has to
AndyL> do with (possibly outdated) GCC. We have no problem
AndyL> with xlc/xlf.
AndyL> The trouble we're having is getting R to link against
AndyL> readline in 64-bit. Haven't figure out how to do
AndyL> that yet. Life w/o readline is rather trying...
well, all ESS users work without readline,
and I think we would find life w/o ESS much more trying...
In other words, using ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) gives is you
everything and much more than readline {but it does give some of
it somewhat differently!}
Martin
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