On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Simon Urbanek wrote: > <snipped> >> Because it *is* the gcc files? (Note the "/local" in the paths.) >> Full R comes with GNU Fortran 4.2.1, because Apple doesn't offer >> any Fortran compiler and most other Fortran compiler binaries for >> Mac OS X out on the web are not really working well. It installs >> in /usr/local. > <snipped> > > This is what I don't understand or agree on. The R windows installer > does *not* try to install any of mingw gcc or Rtools. Okay, you > cannot install source packages on windows without mingw gcc or > Rtools, but that's a caveate. > > If I were an Apple user (which I am not), there is a chance that I > might have my own gcc/gfortran in /usr/local and I surely do not > want R to temper with them. If you need runtime libgfortran support, > you should just bundle gfortran.so and gcc.so if necesary (there are > static alternatives), and put those in R's area. >
That's exactly what we do. Apparently you didn't bother to read my e- mail (the part you "snipped") or to look at the installer. Please do your homework before posting wild (and false) speculations. Cheers, Simon > (recently, I took enough trouble of bootstrapping gfortran 4.2.x > for cross-compiling - see mingw-devel mailing list archive - because > mingw don't distribute that as binary. I have win32 R under wine, > but I really would *not* appreciate if win32 R tries to do anything > substantially more than just put itself in a directory...). > > <snipped> >> No. The failure is due to a strange symlink in /usr/local/lib that >> points to itself. I suspect that this has something to do with an >> upgrade from Tiger to Leopard or Xcode 3 installation and that >> Apple actually creates that infinite symlink. Given that there is "/ >> usr/loca/lib 1" lingering around, I'd bet that >> sudo rm /usr/local/lib >> sudo mv '/usr/local/lib 1' /usr/local/lib >> will fix the problem. > > <snipped> > > Yeah, that apple box is *so* broken.:-). > > HTL > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
