Although I still have to look into the various flags, the IBM vacpp (C and C++) and xlf (FORTRAN) compilers can be used to build at least R.bin. Of course libR.dylib and the various bundles are more complicated, but R.bin runs (in as far as it does not depend on any modules and packages). This is important, because people report speed increases of 100-200% compared to gcc/g77. ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au