Dirk, On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > (My reply will probably bounce at r-sig-mac where I am not subscribed.) > > Slava, > > On 21 December 2011 at 12:26, Slava Razbash wrote: > | Hello, > | > | Will RcppEigen be available on MacOS X soon? Currently, the CRAN page > | says that it is not be available on MacOS X: > | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppEigen/index.html > | > | I have been informed that it compiles fine on an Intel machine and > | that the issue is probably PowerPC related. > > As discussed in earlier emails, this is somewhat complicated. On the one > hand, it is a bit of a "Simon" issue at CRAN as Simon (whom I added as a CC) > only admits packages that build on OS X for 32 and 64 bit Intel as well as > ppc, and Eigen fails to crosscompile for ppc. So no go there. > > Eigen's upstream is also not in a position to fix things, and understandably > reluctant to cater for an outdated and known-as-buggy compiler, ie g++-4.2.1. > > Rock, meet hard place: We're stuck. > > So something has to change for this to improve. Either we manage to petition > Simon to whitelist packages even if they do not produce 'three architecture' > fat binaries. Or else we all have to wait clang/llvm support for C++ on OS X > which may be a while.
I am currently pursuing an alternative course of action. Thanks. Best Regards, Slava > > | I intend to use RcppEigen as part of a package that must work on all > platforms. > > The package works. As Romain told you again this morning, you can always > build RcppEigen from source on OS X. > > Regards, Dirk > > | Thank You, > | > | Slava > > -- > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too > dark to read." -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
