[Rd] Building R on Solaris

[elw at stderr.org]

> Sun Studio 11 compilers (which are now a free download).
> A set of Open Source tools from www.sunfreeware.com in /usr/sfw.
> A large set of Open Source tools in /opt/csw.
>
> The latter was new to me, and uses a repository at www.blastwave.org and 
> a nifty tool called 'pkg-get'.  My sysadmin (who has an HP-UX and Debian 
> bias) thought this was the best he had seen, ahead of apt-get and yum, 
> for example.  This box already had everything I needed to build R, 
> including


Your sysadmin will change his mind the first time that blastwave packages 
totally f*ck one of his machines.  They're usually a bit stale.  Building 
your own kit is much more reliable...

--elijah