I am attaching a patch to R-0.63's configure.in file which will enable R to detect and use some special math libraries on linuxppc and mklinux. The patch provides tests for these libraries and enable/disable switches for them as well. One library is the libmoto math library which must be used in conjunction with libm (it only replaces some of libm's functions). The other is a RISC optimized BLAS library, libblas_risc, which must be used along with a standard implementation of BLAS, libblas. It only provides optimized versions of GEMM routines for single and double precision real values. Please let me know if the tests cause problems on other architectures. -- Fred Bacon =========================================================================Aerodyne Research, Inc. Phone: (978) 663-9500 ext. 273 45 Manning Rd. FAX: (978) 663-4918 Billerica, MA 01821-3976 http://www.aerodyne.com ========================================================================= People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. -- Dave Barry