Of course now you have R with AquaTcl, your Tcl/Tk based packages will not work from the Aqua GUI, and packages such as tkrplot will not work at all.
On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:17 , Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: >> >> >>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>> >>>> I just repeat what I've said here already: unless you desperately >>>> need 64-bit R there is no real benefit from using gcc4, because >>>> it's >>>> still very instable (gfortran segfaults even on simple examples) >>>> and >>>> unreliable (gfortran is even slower than g77). There is a good >>>> reason >>>> why the CRAN build uses gcc3 and g77. >>>> >>> >>> That was a nice clear statement. So given that I want to compile R >>> from source (because I need the devel version), without too much >>> hassle I should use gcc 3.3 supplied by Xcode 2.1. But what do I do >>> with respect to the Fortran compiler? >>> >> >> CRAN installer package of R comes with g77 3.4 which is recommended. >> You can install it even separately from the R binary (preferably >> using sudo installer ... because there is a bug in the package that >> doesn't allow non-admins to install it - c.f. the list). That version >> is tested to work with the gcc3 that cones with Xcode 2.x. If you >> plan to compile R from sources you may also want to run >> sudo gcc_select 3.3 >> to prevent having problems with cc_dynamic. >> >> >>> How close should the versions match? Should I get >>> - gcc 3.3.6 (latest version of the 3.3 branch) from Gnu's website >>> - gcc 3.4.4 from Gnu's website >>> - gcc 3.4 from the hpc.sourceforge website >>> >> >> It doesn't really matter as long as it is >=3.3 and <=3.9 except that >> it should use static Fortran libraries if possible (unfortunately the >> more recent ones don't). > > It works! > > So here is what I did: > 1) Downloaded the most recent (binary) version of R from cran and > mounted the disk image. > 2) installed the g77 compiler from the package by > sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/R-2.1.1/Packages/g77.pkg -target / > (if you just want to check the package information, do > installer -pkg /Volumes/R-2.1.1/Packages/g77.pkg -pkginfo > ) > 3) compiled R using the flags > ./configure --with-aqua \ > --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack \ > --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh \ > --with-tk-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh \ > R_PAPERSIZE=letter \ > F77=g77 \ > TCLTK_LIBS='-framework Tcl -framework Tk' \ > TCLTK_CPPFLAGS='-I/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers > -I/Library/Frameworks/Tk.frameworks/Headers' > (bad linebreak because of the mail program in the two last lines) > > Thanks a lot! > > Kasper > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > ========================================================== Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225, 661-245-1725 http://www.cuddyvalley.org/dunklen.mov ========================================================== Und die Einen sind im Dunkeln Und die Andern sind im Licht Doch man sieht nur die im Lichte Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht (Brecht) _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
