I was having problems compiling packages in R using the gcc compiler, so I thought I'd reinstall gcc and R. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten that I'd installed gcc using pkgutil so I made the fatal mistake of just deleting the directory with gcc and trying to download the latest gcc (when will gcc be updated on pkgutil ? ) source code and compiling it. Because I have no C compiler now I cannot compile the source code! Duh! I tried to download the SUN Studio Compiler package, but it needs patches that I can't seem to download, in order to compile the gcc and R source code.
So I have tried to reinstall or update the gcc package, but pkgutil thinks it is still there and it's the latest offered! I tried to remove the gcc package, but it is marked as "in use". I tried the force option, but to avail. I don't know what else to do. Which brings up another question - if and when I reinstall a working gcc using pkgutil, do I go ahead and compile the source code so I can have an up-to-date version of gcc or wait for pkgutil to update the compiler. Anyway, I really like pkgutil - when it works! I would really appreciate help in getting around this problem. Thanks in advance! Roger Pickering | Survey Statistician Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institutes of Health 5635 Fishers Lane, Room 3070, Bethesda, MD 20892-9304 Phone: 301-443-2535 Web: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov<http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/> [::Documents:NIAAA Logo.jpg]
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