On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Federico Calboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:12, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 22, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Federico Calboli <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I used to be able to use the Fortran binaries provided by Simon for both R >>> and Julia, but alas this will not be possible anymore: >>> >>> "The problem is not BLAS, but your version of gfortran. Mac provides a >>> built-in system blas, so it is not required to build our own. However, >>> "checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown" is a problem. It >>> appears that the R version of gfortran is too old to build arpack (a quick >>> google search reveals that gfortran older than 4.4 won't build code >>> properly on 64 bit -- yours is 4.2.3) ." >>> >>> I could install the GFortran from here: >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#MacOS. but (1) they will overwrite >>> /usr/local/bin/gfortran (with a symlink) and (2) I don't know if it will >>> work for R. >>> >>> So, will the GCC binary work for R, or is it going to be utter PITA? I'm >>> on 10.8, Xcode 4.4.1 + CLI add-ons and all the other bells and whistles. >>> >> >> They won't work with CRAN R binaries because they don't use Apple >> driver-drivers (i.e. they don't support -arch etc.)*. If you compile R from >> sources, you can use any Fortran binary you want - it will be tied to your >> particular runtime (and you can't use -arch). > > I use the CRAN R binary and CRAN binary packages >> >> BTW: The FSF Fortran installs in /usr/local/gfortran so it can peacefully >> co-exist with out CRAN Fortran -- even in our Fortran gfortran is just a >> symlink to gfortran-4.2 so you can easily restore it with >> sudo ls -sfn gfortran-4.2 /usr/local/bin/gfortran >> if you wish. > > Given the above, can I leave gfortran to point to the GCC fortran? Not for CRAN binary unless you do sed 's:gfortran -arch:gfortran-4.2 -arch:g' on both Makeconf files ... > if I do not, julia throws a hissy fit every time I compile it, Can't you just set FC and F77 to gfortran-4.2 when configuring Julia? > though I use and need R *much more than julia*, so I'd like to avoid R > binaries of any sort having a hissy fit if gfortran points to something else > than gfortran-4.2. Between R and julia I'm with R. > Binaries will be fine, but compiling won't work (because FSF gfortran doesn't understand Apple flags). Cheers, Simon > Cheers > > Federico > > > >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> --- for advanced users only - if you have no idea what I'm talking about, >> don't do it --- >> >> * - in theory you can use the Apple driver-driver of our Fortran to drive >> FSF-build Fortran. For example if you take the CRAN Fortran then renaming >> your FSF Fortran to i686-apple-darwin8-gfortran-4.2 and putting our driver >> instead of gfortran then you may have some luck using CRAN R with your FSF >> Fortran (obviously, -arch ppc won't work but fewer people care now ;)). >> There are some potential issues, though, for example the FSF binaries use >> purely dynamic setup so anything you compile can only be used on your >> machine. Also in theory you can have runtime version mismatch issues (two >> different versions of gfortran and gcc runtimes) - so your mileage may vary. >> >> >>> BW >>> >>> F >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Federico C. F. Calboli >>> Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research >>> Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus >>> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG >>> >>> Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 >>> >>> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk >>> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> >>> >> > > -- > Federico C. F. Calboli > Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research > Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus > Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG > > Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 > > f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk > f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
