> It appears that building R with gcc on OpenSolaris may be impossible. I > can't get it to build, and the R manual > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Solaris > > makes it clear nobody else has. It does however build (according to the R > manual at least), with Sun Studio. > > Having to make both Sun Studio and gcc perquisites on OpenSolaris x64 seems > a bit annoying, but it may be the only option. > > Sometimes mixing object files between gcc and Sun Studio on Solaris causes > problems, so potentially that would be problematic on OpenSolaris. (Trying > to build perl modules with gcc, when the Sun perl is built with Sun Studio > will rarely if ever work). > > If R is only used as a command, then building with a mix of compilers will > certainly not cause problems. > > Otherwise, I don't see any easy solution to this. > Hi Dave,
I cannot see any mention of R or any of its libs in modules_list.py. There is a mention of R in setup.py but only in relation of debian. The interface seem to be straightforward pexpect. I think your plan would work. Francois -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
