For those interested, you can get GNU Fortran 4.2.1 (Apple build 5531) for Mac OS X 10.5 here:
http://r.research.att.com/gfortran-42.pkg This build will add Fortran capability to Apple's gcc 4.2 compilers. This is a real Apple-build of GNU Fortran based on Apple's gcc 4.2 (build 5531) and GNU Fortran sources from the gcc 4.2.2 release (with minor tweaks to make them to live together). The above package just adds the Fortran files, so you must have Apple's gcc-4.2 already installed. Requirements: - Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - Apple gcc 4.2 **Important note**: remove all other existing GNU Fortran compilers from your system (including those in /usr/local such as the one supplied with R!). Due to the way libraries are searched, if another Fortran is found and it has a shared libgfortran library then that library will be used instead of the static one that comes with this compiler. This build uses Apple's drivers (supports all special Apple flags) and is fully universal (supports all targets) and can be easily uninstalled (using gfortran-4.2-uninstall script). It lives in /usr as it becomes part of the system compiler. The really good thing about this compiler is that the resulting programs don't need any non-system libraries, so they are full self- contained. This eliminates the hassle with libgfortran.dylib, different versions of libgcc etc. And, of course, R was tested and works well with this compiler. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
