Success! This student had Xcode 3.1.3, and the default behavior seems to be g++-4.0; after fixing up the symbolic link in /usr/bin to point g++ to g++-4.2, everything started working. Hope this helps someone...
Jay On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 5 April 2011 at 15:14, Simon Urbanek wrote: > | Two minor comments: > | > | a) Xcode 3.1.x is for Leopard only, Snow Leopard comes with Xcode 3.2.x > (but there any version will work since there is nothing older than 3.2.0 for > SL). > | > | b) I'm not 100% sure whether gcc 4.2 is the default in Xcode 3.1.4 -- I > think and hope it is, but there is a very small probability that it may not > be (mine is already set to gcc 4.2 and I don't have a "clean" machine to test > it). > > Thanks again. New versions tries to reflect this: > > > \subsection{I am having problems building Rcpp on OS X, any help ?} > > OS X is a little more conservative with compiler versions, so it pays to get > the latest of whatever Apple releases which may already be a little behind > what is used on Linux or Windows. > > At the time of writing this paragraph (in the spring of 2011), \pkg{Rcpp} > (just like CRAN) supports all OS X releases greater or equal to 10.5. > However, building \pkg{Rcpp} from source (or building packages using > \pkg{Rcpp}) also requires a recent-enough version of Xcode. For the > \textsl{Leopard} release of OS X, the current version is 3.1.4 which can be > downloaded free of charge from the Apple Developer site. The \textsl{Snow > Leopard} release already comes with Xcode 3.2.x. > > > > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > -- John W. Emerson (Jay) Associate Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Yale University http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel