With much thanks to Ei-ji Nakama, R 2.5.0 alpha supports building on AIX (at least AIX 5.2 on one system).
Would anyone able to test this please get the latest tarball from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz and try installing (after reading the AIX notes in R-admin.html section C.9). In particular it would be very helpful to know if 1) --enable-BLAS-shlib works (it is the default everywhere except AIX and Darwin) 2) if people succeed in installing GNU libiconv and building without needing --without-iconv. I am Cc:ing all the people I tracked down who reported attempted AIX installations in 2006 in the hope that they may still be interested. Please report success and any hints or problems in the R-devel list. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
