[Rd] Building R with f2c - still needed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:48:56PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Does anyone have a need to use f2c rather than a Fortran compiler to build 
> R?

We used f2c up until a few months ago as a last line of defence against
crappy Fg77 code on m68k/arm (one or both, it changed at times).

I'd be hesitant about throwing it out, but it is of course your call.

Thanks, Dirk

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