On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Jan de Leeuw wrote: > On Jan 30, 2006, at 07:04 , Paul Roebuck wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > > >> On Jan 27, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote: > >> > >>> I continue to hear Apple's branch has broken gfortran, though never > >>> hear specifically what is broken about it. > >> > >> It doesn't compile - that's what's broken :). My impression is that > >> there is quite a bunch of new pieces and changes in the C back-end > >> code that were shared by the gfortran, but the fortran part was not > >> updated correspondingly. I tried to patch some of the holes, but > >> didn't get very far. Maybe if someone has the spare time to trace all > >> the changes individually in both the FSF and Apple branch could put > >> it together... > >> > >>> I don't mind filing a bug report with them too > >> > >> The problem is Apple doesn't support gfortran and never did. The > >> ability to compile gfortran from the Apple branch was just incidental > >> and required some tweaking as well (basically manually enabling f95 > >> in the build script and patching together fat gfortran libraries), > >> but it was harmless. When you ask them, they say "use f2c" (but R > >> doesn't support that). > > > > I guess what I find odd about [gfortran not compiling] is > > that no one seems to mention that in the Apple mailing > > list over the last couple months. > > > > <http://lists.apple.com/archives/fortran-dev/2006/Jan/> > > gfortran compiles find on powerpc systems -- not on mactel > systems. until a few weeks ago, people with mactel systems > were under nondisclosure and could not post the info on > any mailing lists.
Obtaining a newer build of 'gfortran' than 5202 is not out of the question then. Just wanted the matching F95 compiler for Xcode 2.2.1 build (PPC). ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
