Simon and Simon, I'll gladly test the build and report.... Cheers, Graham On 1-Nov-06, at 7:05 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Simon, > > On Nov 1, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Simon de Bernard wrote: > >> I am about to invest into a new xserve and I was wondering what was >> the status on the 64-bit release of R for the intel chips (I need >> to break that 4GB limit...) >> > > Unfortunately I still have no access to a Mac Pro machine, so I can't > test it. In theory it should work as there is no problem building 64- > bit ppc binary (i.e. the R sources should have no 32-bit vs 64-bit > issues on a Mac). In practice there may be some problems lurking in > the dark because of the compilers (the gcc 4.0.3 we use for the > current build doesn't have 64-bit Intel support). A possible way is > to use Apple compiler and maybe HPC gfortran. I can try to build such > binary, but I'll need some owner of Mac Pro to test it (I'll post it > to the R Mac page). Of course the same restrictions that apply to the > ppc 64-bit version apply here as well (no Cocoa and GUI, need for > custom X11 client etc.). > > Cheers, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
