[Rd] Building R from the source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Benilton Carvalho wrote:

> Professor Ripley,
>
> thank you very much for your reply.
>
> I'm currently trying to build R-2.4.0 from the source on a system
> (Xeon) running Fedora Core 4.

And I still don't know if this is i686 or x86_64!

> As for the available compilers: gcc/g++/gfortran/f95 (version 4.0.0-8)

Ouch: I really would advise against those (they are the main reason why 
many of us skipped FC4 and CRAN ran its tests under gcc3 until later 
versions were available).  Probably best to update to 4.1.1, but I see 
4.0.2 is on the FC4 update area and this suggests that your OS is not
fully updated.


>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Benilton Carvalho
> PhD Candidate
> Department of Biostatistics
> Johns Hopkins University
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
>
>>> when building (say) R-2.4.0 from the source, is it still the
>>> recommendation to use GCC 3.4?
>>
>> If you want more detailed advice, please give fuller details
>> including your exact OS and what compilers you have available to you.

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