On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm subscribing to R-devel, where may be the proper place to post this > query. Sorry. > > I have a reason to create R from the source code. I have a MacBook Pro > running OS X 10.8.2. I've downloaded 'gfortran-4.2.3.pkg' and > installed Fortran. > > I downloaded R-2.15.3 and tried to do a "./configure". > > The configure fails and the error messages I'm seeing are: > > checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none > checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown > configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme > checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... unknown > configure: error: cannot use Fortran > > I've read the admin manual. > > My Mac system is vanilla, so I had been hoping that I'd have no > difficulty generating R but unfortunately I was wrong. Can someone > suggest something for me to try? >
I suspect you forgot to set -arch and the architecture of your fortran and gcc doesn't match. Please see the Mac FAQ and use the proper flags or update your Fortran (so you have a 64-bit driver as well). Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
