Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build R? It is yet one more thing to test, and as it only works on 32-bit platforms it is something that I will shortly no longer be able to test. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build > R? > > It is yet one more thing to test, and as it only works on 32-bit platforms > it is something that I will shortly no longer be able to test.The only candidate that I can think of is the PDA scene, which R has been just a little too hard to build for till now (Linux based Zaurus excepted). For those platforms you could be stuck with only a C/C++ compiler, but probably also without all the rest of the toolchain, so building will be a major headache anyway. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:48:56PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build > R?We used f2c up until a few months ago as a last line of defence against crappy Fg77 code on m68k/arm (one or both, it changed at times). I'd be hesitant about throwing it out, but it is of course your call. Thanks, Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison