[R] RPM of R-1.2.1 for RH 7?

Prof Brian Ripley
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:06:38 -0000

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

>
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> >
> >> There does not seem to be a RPM for Red Hat 7 of version 1.2.1.
> >> What should I do?  I have a new computer with RH7.
> >
> > The easiest thing to do is to install from source.  You will need to
> > up/downgrade your gcc, though.  The notorious "gcc 2.96"
supplied with
> RH7
> > causes a number of problems with R.
> >
> > Installing from source will mean you want to uninstall before
installing
> > an RPM, should one become available.
> >
> >
> >    -thomas
> >
> > Thomas Lumley               Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
> > tlumley at u.washington.edu    University of Washington, Seattle
> >
> The gcc-2.96 compiler has actually been fixed a couple of months ago.  The
> current RPM version is 2.96-69.
>
> I am not trying to defend RH for including an "experimental"
compiler in
> their 7.0 release but, as a matter of fairness, I have to point out that
> they did a very good job with the update.  I compiled 1.2.1 with it with no
> problems whatsoever.  I ran all the tests with no errors and all the
> packages I tried to compile so far work fine.
>
> This is a little off the subject, but the updated 2-.96 compiler also
> compiles Linux kernel 2.4.0 with no problems.

But, see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html for what the gcc developers
recommend.


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