[Rd] Building R with f2c - still needed?

[Peter Dalgaard]

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.

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